The issue of positive reviews on wine blogs has concerned me for a little while now, mostly in relation to the Wine Rambler, actually. Looking back over the past half year or so we mostly had good or very good reviews here (leaving aside the really cheap supermarket wines, but criticising those is not really a brave thing to do).
There is of course a reason for this: we write almost exclusively about wines we pay for ourselves, so we do what we can to buy wines we hope are good, and we seem to be getting better at this (which also includes spending more money). At the heart of the Wine Rambler there is still two old friends (now living in different countries) having a conversation about our wine adventures. Maybe we should drink more bad wine to demonstrate that we are bloggers of the really critical and honest sort? ;-)
Anyway, as with all sources it is up to the readers to make up their minds about how credible we and other bloggers are.
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Positive reviews
The issue of positive reviews on wine blogs has concerned me for a little while now, mostly in relation to the Wine Rambler, actually. Looking back over the past half year or so we mostly had good or very good reviews here (leaving aside the really cheap supermarket wines, but criticising those is not really a brave thing to do).
There is of course a reason for this: we write almost exclusively about wines we pay for ourselves, so we do what we can to buy wines we hope are good, and we seem to be getting better at this (which also includes spending more money). At the heart of the Wine Rambler there is still two old friends (now living in different countries) having a conversation about our wine adventures. Maybe we should drink more bad wine to demonstrate that we are bloggers of the really critical and honest sort? ;-)
Anyway, as with all sources it is up to the readers to make up their minds about how credible we and other bloggers are.