One day people may remember American wine industry as one big fraudulent big business. Today, it looks good however. It is booze afterall and the same kind of people who live off hard liquor (a drug?) basically run this industry at some level by producing, distributing or whatever. It all comes down to the same thing: How much of it is fraud? You will have to find out on your own. I remember when I was a tour of wine country in California and this nameless winery had so many gold medals! How come I never heard of them if so good? I learned later when I read a local State’s Fairs list of wine awards!!! How many golds? How many double golds? Was there anyone who did not get a gold medal? Promoting stuff is one thing but downright fraud is another. Good thing in America standards are made by those who need to use them! They have no intrinsic value but are great to be used for some unethical purpose.
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from Vinography blog
Bear with me while I get this out of the way:
I told you so.
I’ve taken a lot of flak here at Vinography for my stance on the competition, state and county fair medals that wineries like to make a big deal about. I think they’re all bunk — useless to the consumer, and a waste of money for the wineries trying to win them. For reference, I suggest you look at my posts entitled: Stop The State Fair Madness and Wine Competitions are One Big Racket.
My opinion has been based up until this point on purely anecdotal evidence that I can summarize quite simply. I taste thousands of wines a year at large wine tasting events, where (annoyingly) many producers advertise (and proclaim) their medal winning wines. The vast majority of the time, these wines aren’t any good. And quite to the contrary, some of the time, these wines are positively awful.
Read the whole article
http://www.vinography.com/archives/2009/09/gold_medals_do_not_mean_good_w.html
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