Dec. 27, 2004
Total Votes: 1053
Wine buying strategy for 2005
| No real change |  57 (5%)
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| Buy more wine | 140 (13%)
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| Buy less wine | 68 (6%)
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| Stay with the familiar | 36 (3%)
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| Branch out and experiment | 196 (18%)
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| Buy more expensive wine | 99 (9%)
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| Buy more affordable wine | 104 (9%)
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| Buy more online/mail order | 47 (4%)
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| Buy more locally | 62 (5%)
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| Try a wine-of-the-month club | 15 (1%)
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| Get on more winery mailing lists | 49 (4%)
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| Get off the mailing lists | 10 (0%)
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| Explore high-end "cult" wines | 23 (2%)
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| Start following Parker | 17 (1%)
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| Cancel Parker subscription | 15 (1%)
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| Start following Wine Spectator | 23 (2%)
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| Cancel Wine Spectator subscription | 34 (3%)
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| Other (fill-in) | 58 (5%)
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Here are the fill-in votes:
- A year of drinking and cellar emptying (1 votes)
- At least 10 grapes I haven't had (1 votes)
- Avoid Wine Spectator and all other "gurus" (1 votes)
- Baby on the way, new priorities! (1 votes)
- but more US wines from Ohio ,Virginia and other non-typical regions (1 votes)
- Buy based on actuary tables-not vintage charts (1 votes)
- Buy better wine (1 votes)
- buy better wines, at whatever price point (1 votes)
- Buy for the (new) cellar (1 votes)
- buy less that need cellar time (1 votes)
- Buy more 2002 South Australian Reds (1 votes)
- buy more vintage port, rioja, and barolo (1 votes)
- Buy more wine from TN's (1 votes)
- Buy more young wine (1 votes)
- Buy wines for 101 and expand knowledge, (1 votes)
- Buy with an eye on wine education. (1 votes)
- Cancel 1-2 wine club membeships (1 votes)
- Clear out the bottom of my cellar (1 votes)
- Continue following Wine Spectator (1 votes)
- Continue to buy high quality high price/perfromance-ratio wines (1 votes)
- corner the market on 2001 Napa Cabs (1 votes)
- deepen knowledge of certain regions (1 votes)
- Do more reading, focus on particular region (Piedmont) (1 votes)
- Drink More (1 votes)
- Drink more French and Italian wines (1 votes)
- Drink what I have! (1 votes)
- Expand my wine "cellar" (i.e. lay more down!) (1 votes)
- Find a good cheap 'house wine' and stick with it, splurging occasionally (1 votes)
- Focus on French wines (1 votes)
- Follow Wine Enthusiast Mag (1 votes)
- Give up on all pinot noirs. I just don't like them. (1 votes)
- half the fun is learning, and I never want to stop learning! (1 votes)
- Hope the SAQ strike ends soon (1 votes)
- host some wine tasting get togethers at home (1 votes)
- IGNORE WINE SPECTATOR ADVICE (1 votes)
- internet research (1 votes)
- learn more about wine (1 votes)
- Less beer, more wine (1 votes)
- Make more wine (2 votes)
- More Burgundy, Rioja, and odd DOC/G Italians (1 votes)
- more case purchases, less onsey-twosey purchases (1 votes)
- only buy wines with a high QPR (1 votes)
- purchase favorites in larger quanitites--four to six bottles at a time instead of one to three bottl (1 votes)
- Rad innovation: smart buying. Stick to fav appels, try an armful of singles, buy vol only of best. (1 votes)
- Read more on-line wine resources (e.g. blogs) (1 votes)
- Refine past buying strategy concentrating on the wines I really want to age (1 votes)
- Replenish the cellar (1 votes)
- Restock some hard to find vintners I like/ drink less yet better (1 votes)
- Sit back, uncork, pour and enjoy, with or without a fine meal. (1 votes)
- Stay away from over-priced, over-rated Bordeaux and Burgundy! (1 votes)
- Subscribe to Decanter (1 votes)
- taste more with friends (1 votes)
- try more wines that a local honest retailer recommends (1 votes)
- Try to acquire the hybrid & labrusca wines that I meant to this year but never got around to. (1 votes)
- Try to avoid bankrupting myself as the declining dollar makes my favorite wines more expensive. (1 votes)
- visit more wineries (1 votes)
- Visit more wineries. (1 votes)
Dec. 6, 2004
Total Votes: 561
Buying wine online
| Legal here, and I do it | 202 (36%)
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| Legal here, but I don't | 45 (8%)
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| Not legal here, but I do it anyway | 141 (25%)
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| Not legal here, and I don't | 173 (30%)
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Nov. 22, 2004
Total Votes: 307
My usual wine-shop purchase ...
| 1 bottle | 15 (4%)
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| 2 or 3 bottles | 114 (37%)
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| 4 or 5 bottles | 54 (17%)
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| 6-bottle case | 16 (5%)
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| 7 to 11 bottles | 17 (5%)
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| 12-bottle case | 59 (19%)
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| More than 1 case | 27 (8%)
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| I buy only online/mail order | 5 (1%)
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Nov. 8, 2004
Total Votes: 424
Political preference?
| Republican | 103 (24%)
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| Democrat | 137 (32%)
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| Independent | 56 (13%)
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| Liberal | 52 (12%)
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| Conservative | 28 (6%)
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| Other (Fill-in) | 48 (11%)
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- A little to the right of Genghis Khan (1 votes)
- Anyone running against GWB Party (1 votes)
- Apolitical (2 votes)
- Can't find a box-fits-all - assess issue/personality on merits (1 votes)
- Canadian! (1 votes)
- Caring conservative (1 votes)
- Constitution Party (1 votes)
- democratic socialist/green (1 votes)
- Donald Duck (1 votes)
- Druid (1 votes)
- Fiscal conservative / social liberal (1 votes)
- Fiscal conservative, civil libertarian (small l ! ) (1 votes)
- fiscally conservative; socially moderate (1 votes)
- green (2 votes)
- greenish caring libertarian (1 votes)
- Liberal Democrat (1 votes)
- liberal on social issues, conservative on fiscal issues (1 votes)
- libertarian (9 votes)
- libertarian (Yes, with a little 'l') (1 votes)
- Libertarian -- Not quite the same as Liberal as Libertarian is an actual party! (1 votes)
- no party - liberal preferences (1 votes)
- Oenophile (1 votes)
- pessimistic radical (1 votes)
- Progressive left (1 votes)
- radical feminist (1 votes)
- Radical left (1 votes)
- Republicrat (1 votes)
- Social Democrat (1 votes)
- Social liberal (borderline libertarian), economic conservative (NOT neocon) (1 votes)
- Social Liberal, Fiscal Conservative (1 votes)
- Socialist (3 votes)
- Socially conservative but dislike "economic Darwinism" (1 votes)
- Usually end up picking the lesser of two evils (1 votes)
- Way left of anything acceptable in US (1 votes)
- Whomever I think will do the most for the country! (1 votes)
- _A Vote Against W (1 votes)
Oct. 4, 2004
Total Votes: 911
How much is too much?
| None | 3 (0%)
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| One drink per day | 17 (1%)
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| Two drinks | 60 (6%)
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| Three drinks | 239 (26%)
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| Four drinks | 280 (30%)
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| One bottle | 160 (17%)
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| More than 1 bottle | 152 (16%)
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Sept. 6, 2004
Total Votes: 436
Organize the wine shop
| Country/region | 230 (52%)
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| Grape variety | 97 (22%)
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| Wine style | 65 (14%)
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| Price | 7 (1%)
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| Alphabetical | 3 (0%)
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| Doesn't matter, just give me helpful staff | 27 (6%)
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| Other (fill-in) | 7 (1%)
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Here are the fill-in votes:
- By grape variety within each country (1 votes)
- by the length of the name of the wine (1 votes)
- Country/Region, then grape variety (1 votes)
- First by wine style, then by country/region, then alphabetically. (1 votes)
- Grape variety by price (1 votes)
- Intuitive Use Catagories (1 votes)
- virgina wines in blue bottles (1 votes)
Aug. 2, 2004
Total Votes: 510
The wine closure of the future?
| Artificial corks in less than 10 years | 57 (11%)
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| Artificial corks in 10 years or more | 10 (1%)
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| Screwcaps in less than 10 years | 267 (52%)
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| Screwcaps in 10 years or more | 46 (9%)
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| Crown caps in less than 10 years | 6 (1%)
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| Natural cork will remain dominant | 76 (14%)
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| I don't know | 6 (1%)
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| I don't care | 10 (1%)
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| Other (fill-in) | 32 (6%)
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Here are the fill-in votes:
- (CORRECTION)Only when masturbation replaces coitus will unnaturalcorks be acceptable to wine lover. (1 votes)
- artificial scotch bottle knob cork (1 votes)
- Caps, plasti-corks for cheap and popular, -5 yrs. Corks for most artisanal wines, foreseeable future (2 votes)
- Combination of artificial corks and screwcaps in less than 10 years (1 votes)
- Cork, real or artificial, forever!!! (1 votes)
- glass corks in the future (1 votes)
- I believe the 'natural cork' has a romance about it that can never be replaced. It's the ritual. (1 votes)
- I like tradition! (1 votes)
- I was in favor of screwcaps, but wary since I got no screwcaps on the screw-died bottle. . (1 votes)
- mix of screwcaps and artificial corks in less than 10 years (1 votes)
- natural cork will fade and resurge in about 10 to 15 years (1 votes)
- Natural corks for wines that really matter, (1 votes)
- natural corks in the best wines, crowns in everything else (1 votes)
- No more "Do you have a corkscrew! Yeah!!!!! (1 votes)
- Only when masturbation replaces coitus will unnaturalcorks be acceptable to wine lovers. (1 votes)
- Only when masturbation replaces coitus wilnatural corks be acceptable to a wine lover. (1 votes)
- Screw caps will take all the romance out of opening a bottle of wine! (1 votes)
- screwcap: wines meant to be consumed young; cork: traditional estates on select curvees (1 votes)
- Screwcaps and artificial corks to dominate in less than 10 years (1 votes)
- screwcaps and glass closures (1 votes)
- screwcaps for whites and natural cork for reds (1 votes)
- Screwcaps in less than 10 years because of $$$$$$'s - booooo (1 votes)
- Screwcaps in less than 10 years IF down the line no problems are encountered. (1 votes)
- screwcaps in less than 10 yrs. for majority of wines, but cork will prove best for long term aging (1 votes)
- screwcaps on youthful wines within 10 years, cork in "ageworthy wine" (1 votes)
- screwcaps w/in 2 years (1 votes)
- The Stelvin Cap will quadruple the number of wines openned in American households in less than five. (1 votes)
- There will be a better alternative to screwcaps in less than 10 years (1 votes)
- Vino-Lok in less than 10 years (1 votes)
- Whites in screw caps in ten, reds longer (1 votes)
- Wine will be avilable in sealed baggies similar as todays fruit juices. It's called cost savings. (1 votes)
July 14, 2004
Total Votes: 587
Best wine match with grilled fare
| Zinfandel | 166 (28%)
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| Syrah, Shiraz or Petite Sirah | 127 (21%)
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| Red Rhone blends | 68 (11%)
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| Merlot | 20 (3%)
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| Cabernet Sauvignon and Bordeaux blends | 78 (13%)
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| Sangiovese and Chianti blends | 29 (4%)
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| Gewurztraminer | 3 (0%)
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| White ... any white | 5 (0%)
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| Dry Rosé | 16 (2%)
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| White Zinfandel | 2 (0%)
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| Cheap bubbly | 1 (0%)
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| Beer, of course! | 21 (3%)
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| Unsweet iced tea | 1 (0%)
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| Other (fill-in) | 50 (8%)
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Here are the fill-in votes:
- 7 Deadly Zins!!!!!!! (1 votes)
- anything red (1 votes)
- barbaresco (1 votes)
- barbera (1 votes)
- barolo (1 votes)
- Barolo and Barbaresco (1 votes)
- Cab Franc - Yakima Valley (1 votes)
- Cabernet Franc (single varietal or minimum amt. of cab sauv/merlot) (1 votes)
- carmenere (1 votes)
- Chardonnay (1 votes)
- Corsican reds (1 votes)
- Cru Beaujolais (1 votes)
- depends upon the grilled item/style (1 votes)
- diet coke (1 votes)
- Eaton Hill Winery 2002 Cox Canyon Vineyards Cabernet Franc (1 votes)
- Estancia Pinot Noir (1 votes)
- Gigondas (1 votes)
- Grenache from Spain (1 votes)
- Grilled steak or grilled fish? (1 votes)
- light, not-too-fruity Cabernet varietals from around the world (1 votes)
- Madiran or other Tannat-based wine (1 votes)
- Malbec (3 votes)
- Malbec (Oregon or South American) (1 votes)
- Nice cool served Tarrango, Brown Brothes Australia (1 votes)
- norton (1 votes)
- Old-school Pinotage or a smoky Foch. (1 votes)
- Oregon Pinot Noir (1 votes)
- pinot blanc (1 votes)
- Pinot Noir (5 votes)
- pinot noir -- delicious with a smoked pork butt (1 votes)
- Pinot noirs, of course (1 votes)
- Pinotage (2 votes)
- Rosemont GSM (1 votes)
- Roussillon and Languedoc wines (based on syrah, grenache, mourvedre,carignan and/or cinsault) (1 votes)
- Sauvignon Blanc (1 votes)
- Sauvignon Blanc (for grilled veggies) (1 votes)
- Spanish red from Rioja (2 votes)
- Sweet Southern Muscadine (1 votes)
- Tempranillo (1 votes)
- Tempranillo, Rioja (1 votes)
- teran (terrano) (1 votes)
- White Rhone blends - something with a little weight, but still crisp and cold (1 votes)
June 28, 2004
Total Votes: 207
Buy it, drink it, or wait?
| Today or tomorrow | 16 (7%)
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| Within one week | 21 (10%)
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| Within one month | 35 (16%)
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| Within three months | 32 (15%)
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| Within one year | 48 (23%)
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| Longer than one year | 55 (26%)
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June 7, 2004
Total Votes: 155
How long should wine rest after shipping?
| What - I should wait? | 10 (6%)
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| A day or three | 11 (7%)
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| About a week | 37 (23%)
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| About two weeks | 31 (20%)
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| About a month | 24 (15%)
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| Depends on age of the wine | 8 (5%)
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| Depends on whether it's filtered | 2 (1%)
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| Depends on the specific wine | 18 (11%)
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| Depends on how far it traveled | 5 (3%)
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| Other (fill-in) | 9 (5%)
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Here are the fill-in votes:
- About two weeks for the wines made in my favorite producing country, which are mostly white. (1 votes)
- As Dionysis as my witness, drain that bottle the on the day of delivery (1 votes)
- Assuming I only brought it home from the winery, I don't see a need to let it rest. (1 votes)
- At least six weeks. Six months for older bottles with substantial sediment. (1 votes)
- Depends on type of wine, age, how far the wine has traveled, how the wine was transported, etc. (1 votes)
- Depends upon all the last 5 variables, plus the travelling conditions (i.e. temp, agitation, etc) (1 votes)
- Long experience importing from France to Australia taught me that 3 months is needed (1 votes)
- Only to let sediment, if any, settle. (1 votes)
- Usually two or three months (1 votes)
May 17, 2004
Total Votes: 1615
I feel justified in returning a wine when ...
| "Corked" | 285 (17%)
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| Oxidized | 229 (14%)
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| Heat-damaged | 238 (14%)
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| Seepage in the capsule | 129 (7%)
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| Label damaged | 10 (0%)
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| Label missing | 74 (4%)
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| Wine is not clear | 57 (3%)
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| Wine is cloudy | 83 (5%)
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| Wine is discolored | 95 (5%)
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| Excessive sediment | 32 (1%)
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| Overpriced for quality | 5 (0%)
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| Wasn't what I expected | 7 (0%)
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| Bad match with food | 2 (0%)
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| "Just doesn't taste right" | 65 (4%)
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| For replacement only, not refund | 103 (6%)
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| Only with recent purchases | 126 (7%)
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| Any purchase, no matter how long ago | 38 (2%)
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| Never | 10 (0%)
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| Other (fill-in) | 27 (1%)
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Here are the fill-in votes:
- Wine Incorrectly Identified by Seller or wrong AP no. (1 votes)
- any spoilage-ethyl acetate-geranium nose-spoilage yeast-excess acetic acid (1 votes)
- bottle damage (1 votes)
- Bought on recommendation of a "clerk" that knows my tastes, but misses on this rec (1 votes)
- Brett, VA, re-fermentation (1 votes)
- excessive volatile acidity (1 votes)
- I have never returned wine (1 votes)
- I have not had to return a bottle so far. (1 votes)
- If a recommended/up-sold wine is not as represented (1 votes)
- If the merchant misrepresented the quality/taste of wine and convinced you to purchase more expensiv (1 votes)
- insect, debris or ball bearing present (1 votes)
- more than $20 (1 votes)
- Not posible in my country (1 votes)
- One is never justified in returning wine. What a boorish question! (1 votes)
- only for $30+ bottles that have been damaged (corked, seepage etc) (1 votes)
- over-oaked (1 votes)
- plastic closure imitating cork (1 votes)
- Refermentation (1 votes)
- salesperson exagerated quality of the wine (1 votes)
- secondary fermentation (1 votes)
- when have plastic stopper (1 votes)
- When merchant describes it's taste incorrectly (1 votes)
- When they substitute vintage not ordered (1 votes)
- Will return a restaurant bottle if 'bad' but not if I chose poorly. (1 votes)
- wine is muddy and/or "dead" tasting (1 votes)
- within three years (1 votes)
- You are never justified in returning a wine. What a completely boorish notion! (1 votes)
April 19, 2004
Total Votes: 4373
Wines I haven't tried yet
| I have tried them all | 7 (0%)
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| I have tasted none of them | 15 (0%)
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| Aglianico | 177 (4%)
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| Albariño | 126 (2%)
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| Arneis | 176 (4%)
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| Barbera | 43 (0%)
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| Chambourcin | 200 (4%)
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| Dolcetto | 76 (1%)
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| Fiano di Avellino | 212 (4%)
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| Freisa | 225 (5%)
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| Greco di Tufo | 180 (4%)
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| Gruner Veltliner | 116 (2%)
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| Lemberger/Blaufränkisch | 171 (3%)
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| Malvasia | 128 (2%)
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| Mataro/Mourvèdre/Monastrell | 62 (1%)
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| Mondeuse | 229 (5%)
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| Nero d'Avola | 140 (3%)
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| Pineau d'Aunis | 237 (5%)
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| Pinotage | 89 (2%)
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| Poulsard | 245 (5%)
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| Scheurebe | 189 (4%)
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| Tannat | 179 (4%)
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| Tempranillo | 33 (0%)
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| Tocai Friulano | 145 (3%)
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| Torrontes | 196 (4%)
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| Verdelho | 113 (2%)
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| Verduzzo | 225 (5%)
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| Vermentino | 179 (4%)
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| Vignoles | 193 (4%)
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| Viognier | 45 (1%)
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| Other (fill-in) | 22 (0%)
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Here are the fill-in votes:
- Amarone (1 votes)
- anything Georgian (1 votes)
- Baco Noir (1 votes)
- Barolo (1 votes)
- bornada (1 votes)
- Carbono/Carbona/Charbono (1 votes)
- Chateau-Chalon (1 votes)
- Gamay (haven't tried a Beaujolais yet) (1 votes)
- Greek varieties (1 votes)
- Hungarian tokaj (1 votes)
- malbec (1 votes)
- Malbec, Carmenere (1 votes)
- Mencia (1 votes)
- Most hybrids (1 votes)
- Norton (1 votes)
- NORTON!!! (1 votes)
- rkatsiteli (1 votes)
- Ruche, Pelaverga di Verduno, Pinot Meunier (as single varietal), Zweigelt, St. Laurent (1 votes)
- Tamaiosa Romanesca (1 votes)
- Tarrango, Greek verieties (1 votes)
- tokaki aszu essensia, ch. d'quem (1 votes)
- traminette+ a host of Greek, Turkish and Georgian varieties (1 votes)
March 19, 2004
Total Votes: 600
Do shelf 'talkers' influence your wine purchase?
| Greatly | 109 (18%)
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| Somewhat | 290 (48%)
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| Only a little | 156 (26%)
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| Not at all | 45 (7%)
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March 1, 2004
Total Votes: 300
I drink wine with food ...
| Rarely or never | 13 (4%)
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| About 25% of the time | 23 (7%)
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| About 50% of the time | 63 (21%)
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| About 75% of the time | 77 (25%)
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| Just about always | 124 (41%)
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Feb. 9, 2004
Total Votes: 694
Worst wine advice
| All this wine needs is a little cellar time. | 31 (4%)
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| All that alcohol is good: it preserves the wine. | 19 (2%)
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| Out of balance? Just wait a few years. | 21 (3%)
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| If a little oak is good, more is better. | 83 (11%)
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| There's never a bad vintage in California. | 42 (6%)
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| This vintage wasn't that bad. | 14 (2%)
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| It's supposed to smell like that. | 76 (10%)
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| New World wines won't age. Buy Old World only. | 17 (2%)
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| Old World wines reek. Buy New World only. | 11 (1%)
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| Eastern U.S. states don't make good wine. | 26 (3%)
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| French-hybrid grapes are just as good as vinifera. | 7 (1%)
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| You'll love this Chardonnay ... it's buttery. | 53 (7%)
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| If you like Chateau Rolex, you'll love this Chateau. | 10 (1%)
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| This wine will be a great investment. | 34 (4%)
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| Parker rated it 99. You'll love it. | 52 (7%)
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| The Spectator loved it. So will you. | 69 (9%)
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| Hate the wine? Then cook with it. | 67 (9%)
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| You should buy a wine cellar. | 9 (1%)
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| You should get into the wine business. | 53 (7%)
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Jan. 12, 2004
Total Votes: 497
What's your wine-list strategy?
| Splurge on the best | 5 (1%)
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| Fancier than I drink at home | 58 (11%)
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| About the same as I drink at home | 123 (24%)
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| Save with a cheaper wine | 47 (9%)
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| Seek best value regardless of price | 187 (37%)
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| Only the cheapest on the list | 2 (0%)
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| Who can afford restaurant wine? | 40 (8%)
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| Only by the glass | 35 (7%)
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