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Old Jul 8, 2019, 3:48 pm
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Various Argentine Bodegas win top honors in this "competition"...…

https://www.worldsbestvineyards.com/top-50/
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Old Jul 9, 2019, 9:37 am
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1,500 wineries around the world were nominated for the awards, with around 3,500 votes cast by an international academy of wine tourism experts.

Tourism or Soms! I go with the Soms, they have nothing to sell to skew their opinion
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Old Jul 9, 2019, 10:12 am
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Originally Posted by Flying Machine
Tourism or Soms! I go with the Soms, they have nothing to sell to skew their opinion
That is a load of poopoodoodookaka. While they may be coming from different perspectives re: the wine experience (i.e., the "experience" v the "wine,") show me a somm that hasn't ever been given favo(u)r by a selection of bodegas and I'll show you an honest current occupant of the White House.
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Old Jul 9, 2019, 10:26 am
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Originally Posted by Eastbay1K
That is a load of poopoodoodookaka. While they may be coming from different perspectives re: the wine experience (i.e., the "experience" v the "wine,") show me a somm that hasn't ever been given favo(u)r by a selection of bodegas and I'll show you an honest current occupant of the White House.
In earnest I somewhat agree with your theory. It’s a first of this listing compiled mostly by the tourism community that is self serving. Yes, there’s lots a pay for play in wine journalism that’s a fact. For example Wine Enthusiast offered a 88 rating for an Argentine Malbec that I import. They asked me if I wanted a quarter, half, or full page advertisement. I didn’t reply whom would advertise a 88 point wine? So my point being If it’s the tour operators or the wine specialists I would pick the specialist in a heartbeat.
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Old Jul 9, 2019, 12:41 pm
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Just how did Robert Mondavi achieve #12 ?
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Old Jul 9, 2019, 2:45 pm
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Soms are just like Biologists, Bio-Chemists, Doctors, Lawyers, Sales Clerks, Flight Attendants, and any other trade. There are good ones, and there are bad ones. Its always a tricky thing when one starts to generalize.... hence my above use of quotation marks when I wrote "competition".
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Originally Posted by Gaucho100K
Soms are just like Doctors, Lawyers, Sales Clerks, Flight Attendants, and any other trade. There are good ones, and there are bad ones. Its always a tricky thing when one starts to generalize.... hence my above use of quotation marks when I wrote "competition".
Does this apply to wine merchants too? (Asking for a friend :-)
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Old Jul 9, 2019, 3:37 pm
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Just how did Robert Mondavi achieve #12 ?
As someone who has lived in a range of 40 to 60 miles from there for the past 34 years, and has been there exactly one time, I would expect that for the right price (or no price at all, should you just happen to drop in and happen to have industry influence), you can have a lovely wine experience, drinking some excellent stuff that has been aging since the pre-Constellation days, and otherwise lavished with a great time.

For the rest of us ...
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Old Jul 9, 2019, 4:53 pm
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Does this apply to wine merchants too? (Asking for a friend :-)
Bio-Chemists are the worst of the whole lot...... (a friend asked me to post this)
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