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Dec. 30, 2002
Total Votes: 656 Your wine-related New Year's resolutions
| Spend less on wine |  43 (6%)
| | Spend more on wine | 25 (3%)
| | Buy better wine | 81 (12%)
| | Try more unfamiliar wines | 111 (16%)
| | Read more about wine | 57 (8%)
| | Take a wine-tasting class | 28 (4%)
| | Subscribe to a wine publication | 9 (1%)
| | Join a tasting group | 18 (2%)
| | Organize a tasting group | 19 (2%)
| | Build and stock a wine cellar | 20 (3%)
| | Reorganize or expand my cellar | 50 (7%)
| | Take more wine tasting notes | 47 (7%)
| | Buy new wine glasses | 13 (1%)
| | Drink wine more frequently | 32 (4%)
| | Drink wine less frequently | 17 (2%)
| | Get friend/family member more interested in wine | 20 (3%)
| | Get a wine-related job | 24 (3%)
| | No wine-related resolutions | 6 (0%)
| | Other (fill-in) | 36 (5%)
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Here are the fill-in votes:
- be a better sommelier (1 votes)
- Begin making my own wine again. (1 votes)
- buy a wine storage/cooling unit (1 votes)
- Buy more of my wine by the case (1 votes)
- Discover Italy (1 votes)
- distributor sales (1 votes)
- drink better wine (1 votes)
- Drink champagne much more often (1 votes)
- DRINK MORE RED FOR HEALTH (1 votes)
- Drink more wine and hard liquor but less Beer and mouthwash (1 votes)
- Expand my basement "winery" (1 votes)
- Expand my wine book collection. (1 votes)
- expand wine knowledge (1 votes)
- hang glasses upside down to alleviate construction dust problem (1 votes)
- I'm over resolutions (1 votes)
- Journey to Bordeaux and the Loire Valley (1 votes)
- Look for wine 'bargins' (1 votes)
- Make better wine! (1 votes)
- Make more wine at home (1 votes)
- Meet more wine geeks offline (1 votes)
- No more Chardonnay! (1 votes)
- No resolutions at all (1 votes)
- plant more vines (1 votes)
- Purchase more bottles of fewer wines (1 votes)
- Reduce cellar size by reducing purchases (1 votes)
- Relax and enjoy a glass whenever the spirit moves me. (1 votes)
- Spend more more wisely on wine (1 votes)
- Start a wine club for independent local restaurants (1 votes)
- Taste more wines side by side in everyday contexts (1 votes)
- Teach more wine classes (1 votes)
- To try Ontario's only varietal Lucie Kuhlmann (1 votes)
- Try Chateau D'Yquem (1 votes)
- Type in wine notes I've already taken (two year backlog!) (1 votes)
- update inventory (especially for white wines) and make wine less important in my life (1 votes)
- upgrade cellar through attrition (1 votes)
- Visit a wine-growing area new to me. (1 votes)
Dec. 13, 2002
Total Votes: 346 Wine-related holiday wish list
| Bottle of wine to cellar | 50 (14%)
| | Bottle of wine to enjoy now | 52 (15%)
| | Case of wine to enjoy now | 27 (7%)
| | Gift certificate | 8 (2%)
| | Leverpull cork extractor | 7 (2%)
| | Pricey Laguiole corkscrew | 8 (2%)
| | Crystal decanter | 8 (2%)
| | Riedel glasses | 18 (5%)
| | Spiegelau glasses | 4 (1%)
| | Book | 9 (2%)
| | Magazine subscription | 1 (0%)
| | Computer Software | 3 (0%)
| | Wine preservation system | 3 (0%)
| | Wine rack | 5 (1%)
| | Wine refrigerator | 30 (8%)
| | Walk-in wine cellar | 19 (5%)
| | Introductory wine tasting course | 9 (2%)
| | Advanced wine tasting course | 7 (2%)
| | Sommelier course | 7 (2%)
| | Wine country trip | 50 (14%)
| | Other (fill-in) | 21 (6%)
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Here are the fill-in votes:
- 2001 Chateau Margaux (1 votes)
- A break from tasting some many great wines! (1 votes)
- Anything not corked. (1 votes)
- cases of wine for the cellar (1 votes)
- Good occasion to drink some of the good wine in my cellar. (1 votes)
- I wish I'd quit buying wine. (1 votes)
- large format bottles (1 votes)
- le nez du vin from santa aka winetitles (1 votes)
- replacement CO2 cartridges for my Cork Popper (1 votes)
- Seeing Norton featured at Vintages (at last) ;) (1 votes)
- Sherry (1 votes)
- Someone cute to drink wine with!! (1 votes)
- Sudden mysterious death of all the cork forests in Portugal (1 votes)
- that I could get the WLDG (software) to work (1 votes)
- That Parker and Wine Spectator w.ould go out of business (1 votes)
- Vintage Port and a lot of it!!! (1 votes)
- Well-aged bottle of great vintage Madeira (1 votes)
- Wine and Stemware carrting case for BYO (1 votes)
- wine cellar fully stocked! (1 votes)
- Wine related items are too personal to trust others with the purchase (1 votes)
- Wine trip to France (1 votes)
Dec. 13, 2002
Total Votes: 1267 Most 'food-friendly' wine?
| Albariño | 10 (0%)
| | Barbera | 29 (2%)
| | Chenin Blanc | 62 (4%)
| | Gewürztraminer | 48 (3%)
| | Grenache/GSM/Rhone blends | 98 (7%)
| | Grüner Veltliner | 19 (1%)
| | Malbec | 76 (5%)
| | Pinot Noir/Burgundy | 312 (24%)
| | Riesling | 234 (18%)
| | Rosé | 33 (2%)
| | Sangiovese/Chianti blends | 140 (11%)
| | Sparkling wine | 85 (6%)
| | Zinfandel | 121 (9%)
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Nov. 8, 2002
Total Votes: 486 I usually surf the 'net for wine-related topics ...
| More than 4 hours a day | 9 (1%)
| | 3-4 hours a day | 8 (1%)
| | 2-3 hours a day | 26 (5%)
| | 1-2 hours a day | 96 (19%)
| | Less than 1 hour a day | 106 (21%)
| | 4-6 days a week | 63 (12%)
| | 2-3 days a week | 73 (15%)
| | About once a week | 59 (12%)
| | Three times a month | 15 (3%)
| | Twice a month | 12 (2%)
| | Once a month | 9 (1%)
| | Less than monthly | 9 (1%)
| | This is my first time | 1 (0%)
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Oct. 25, 2002
Total Votes: 7701 Can you read a wine label?
| I can tell what country this wine is from | 805 (10%)
| | I know what region within that country it is from | 780 (10%)
| | I know what appellation in that region it is from | 765 (9%)
| | I know exactly where this appellation is located | 335 (4%)
| | I have tasted wines from this appellation | 300 (3%)
| | I know what color this wine is | 551 (7%)
| | I know what grapes the wine is made from | 397 (5%)
| | I know what year the grapes for this wine were grown | 738 (9%)
| | I can tell whether this wine is made from estate-grown fruit | 547 (7%)
| | I can tell what village this chateau is in | 422 (5%)
| | I know how much alcohol is in this wine | 741 (9%)
| | I know how much wine is in the bottle | 788 (10%)
| | I can tell whether the bottle is recyclable | 429 (5%)
| | I have read or heard about this chateau | 71 (0%)
| | I have tasted wine from this chateau | 21 (0%)
| | I have tasted this exact wine | 8 (0%)
| | I have visited this chateau | 3 (0%)
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Oct. 11, 2002
Total Votes: 1688 Wines I don't "get"
| Barossa Shiraz | 54 (3%)
| | Beaujolais | 113 (6%)
| | California Chardonnay | 198 (11%)
| | Champagne | 48 (2%)
| | German Riesling | 63 (3%)
| | Gewürztraminer | 56 (3%)
| | Loire reds | 70 (4%)
| | Napa Cabernet | 47 (2%)
| | New World Pinot Noir | 72 (4%)
| | NZ Sauvignon Blanc | 38 (2%)
| | Pinotage | 126 (7%)
| | Port | 54 (3%)
| | Red Burgundy | 37 (2%)
| | Rioja | 41 (2%)
| | Sauternes | 44 (2%)
| | Sherry | 133 (7%)
| | Super Tuscans | 49 (2%)
| | Sweet wine in general | 106 (6%)
| | White Burgundy | 43 (2%)
| | White Rhone | 43 (2%)
| | Zinfandel | 56 (3%)
| | Other (fill-in) | 197 (11%)
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Here are the fill-in votes:
- "white" wines from red grapes (Merlot, Zinfandel, ...) (1 votes)
- 95% of Red Burgundy, the other 5% being a taste of heaven (1 votes)
- >$50/btl CA Cabernet quaffed on release, you might as well start your hibachi w/ a couple of $20's (1 votes)
- aglianico del vulture (1 votes)
- All of the above -- and a number of others. (1 votes)
- almost everything from italy (1 votes)
- Amarone (3 votes)
- Amarone....and I've tried to figure it out (1 votes)
- American Oak (1 votes)
- American Sauvignon Blanc (1 votes)
- any & all rieslings (1 votes)
- Any Chardonnay (1 votes)
- any muscat wines - yuck! (1 votes)
- Any overoaked or buttery Chardonnay (1 votes)
- Any Pinot Noir-allergy to Histamines (1 votes)
- Any Sauvignon Blanc (2 votes)
- Any thing over $50 in a store (1 votes)
- anything from Chile (1 votes)
- Arbois (2 votes)
- Argentine reds (1 votes)
- Argy Malbecs. gimme a break. pale, poor value. (1 votes)
- australian chardonnay (1 votes)
- Australian Merlot (1 votes)
- Austrian Gruner Veltliner (1 votes)
- austrian wines $$$ (1 votes)
- Barnyard Wines i.e. Ngatarawa C ab Sav/Merlot Yuk!!! !! (1 votes)
- barolo (3 votes)
- Barolo (tried many, "got" few, why spend the money?) (1 votes)
- Brunello di Montalcino (1 votes)
- c-through (1 votes)
- Cabernet Franc (2 votes)
- cabernet sauvignon (1 votes)
- California Merlot (1 votes)
- cat-pee Sauvignon Blanc (1 votes)
- chablis (1 votes)
- Chardonnay (1 votes)
- Chianti (1 votes)
- chilean wines (1 votes)
- Dolcetto (1 votes)
- Dry Chenin Blanc (1 votes)
- Dry Sherry (1 votes)
- Dry sherry (disgusting) (1 votes)
- Fess Parker lineup (1 votes)
- Fino Jerez (Dry Sherry (1 votes)
- French Bordeaux (1 votes)
- Gamay (1 votes)
- Gamey Beaujolais (1 votes)
- German Red Wines (1 votes)
- Gernam red wine (why even bother?) (1 votes)
- grenache (1 votes)
- Gruner Veltliner (1 votes)
- Hybrids (1 votes)
- Hybrids and Paul B. ;-) (1 votes)
- Ice wine (1 votes)
- It all makes sense to me. It's PERSONAL TASTE, folks. (1 votes)
- Italian Whites (1 votes)
- Lindemanns Bin 65 Chardonnay (and others in the same vein) - like chewing oak sawdust (1 votes)
- Long Island, NY Wines --way over priced! (1 votes)
- Madeira is icky (1 votes)
- Madiran, practically all wines which mention "chardonnay" on label, most dry white Bordeaux. (1 votes)
- Malbec (4 votes)
- Marsala, I mean, what IS that? Pale Port? Bad Sherry? Cooking Ingredient? People DRINK this stuff? (1 votes)
- Merlot (9 votes)
- Merlot (any) (1 votes)
- Merlot from anywhere on earth (1 votes)
- Merlot. (1 votes)
- Moldovian Wines in General (1 votes)
- Most hybrids (1 votes)
- Most hybrids and native U.S. varieties (1 votes)
- Most hybrids and non-vinifera varieties (1 votes)
- Most New World wines and most Internationalized New World-wannabes from Europe. (1 votes)
- most sangiovese based wines (1 votes)
- Never had a good German red (1 votes)
- New world Chardonnay with exaggerated flavors (1 votes)
- New York Wines (1 votes)
- None (2 votes)
- None! Sherry is the only possible exception - but I've only had one "good" sherry. (1 votes)
- old world pinot noir; smokey, heavily oaked California reds (1 votes)
- over oaked Ribera del Duero creamsicles (1 votes)
- over-extracted, over oaked wines (1 votes)
- Penfolds Grange Hermitage (1 votes)
- Piemont barolos (1 votes)
- Pink Burgundy (1 votes)
- Pinot Grigio (4 votes)
- Pinot Noir (10 votes)
- Pinot Noirs (2 votes)
- pinot noirs (smells/tasts like musty sweat socks!) (1 votes)
- Plain Malbec. Not as a blend. (1 votes)
- Poulsard (1 votes)
- Ravenswood Zins -- and I love Zin. (1 votes)
- red bordeaux (2 votes)
- red bordeaux - haven't had the chance to taste the expensive stuff (1 votes)
- Red Bordeaux, esp. the cheap ones (1 votes)
- Red German Wine (1 votes)
- Red Rhone (1 votes)
- red rhones (1 votes)
- reds from western Spain wines from South America (1 votes)
- Retsina (4 votes)
- Retsina? that Greek wine that tastes like pine tar was added (1 votes)
- Riesling period. (1 votes)
- rose (4 votes)
- Rose's in general; Chateauneuf-du-pape; abusively overpriced restaurant wine that people gladly buy (1 votes)
- Rosemont Wines (1 votes)
- Sangiovese (3 votes)
- Shiraz (1 votes)
- Single grape wines that should be blends (1 votes)
- Some Ice Wines and why the rage (1 votes)
- South African Wines (1 votes)
- South American cabernets & merlots (1 votes)
- South Carolina Scuppernung (1 votes)
- Southern Rhone (2 votes)
- Southern Rhones (1 votes)
- Spanish Rosada (1 votes)
- Sparkling shiraz YUCK!! (1 votes)
- Sparkling Shiraz!! The "Cold Duck" of Down Under!! (1 votes)
- Sweet Late Harvest Wines...waste of good grapes and bottles (1 votes)
- sweet WHITE wine in general (1 votes)
- Syrah from California (1 votes)
- syrah/shiraz (1 votes)
- Tokay (1 votes)
- Too Parker-sweet, jammy, overripe wines (1 votes)
- Turley! (1 votes)
- Ummmm, where is Bordeaux? (1 votes)
- Vin Jaune (1 votes)
- viogner (1 votes)
- Viognier (6 votes)
- Voignier (1 votes)
- Washington State Syrah (1 votes)
- What's to "get"? (1 votes)
- White Wines in General (1 votes)
- white zin, grenache, merlot, etc ... (1 votes)
- WHITE ZIN. (1 votes)
- white zinfandel (12 votes)
- White Zinfandel (if you can call it wine) (1 votes)
- White Zinfandel and now White Merlot (1 votes)
- white zinfandel/rose (1 votes)
- White Zinfandel; White Grenache (1 votes)
- white zinfindel (1 votes)
- Yellow Tail. Perhaps the biggest thing to hit the wine industry since Sutter Home invented White Zin (1 votes)
Sept. 27, 2002
Total Votes: 624 What's your wine value favorite?
| Allegrini Valpolicella Classico (Italy) | 22 (3%)
| | Altos Las Hormigas Malbec (Argentina) | 22 (3%)
| | Berger Kremstal Dry Grüner Veltliner (Austria) | 3 (0%)
| | Borsao Campo de Borja (Spain) | 45 (7%)
| | Clos Roche Blanche Gamay (France) | 8 (1%)
| | Delicato Shiraz (California) | 12 (1%)
| | Domaine de Pouy Cotes du Gascogne (France) | 6 (0%)
| | Eyzaguirre San Francisco de Mostaxal Cabernet Sauvignon (Chile) | 7 (1%)
| | Fairview Goats Do Roam (South Africa) | 23 (3%)
| | Gazela Vinho Verde (Portugal) | 1 (0%)
| | Jacobs Creek Chardonnay (Australia) | 11 (1%)
| | Jamet Syrah (France) | 2 (0%)
| | Laurel Glen REDS (California) | 16 (2%)
| | Leasingham Bin 7 Riesling (Australia) | 7 (1%)
| | Lindemans Bin 65 Chardonnay (Australia) | 20 (3%)
| | Penfolds Bin 2 (Australia) | 19 (3%)
| | Perrin Reserve Cotes du Rhone (France) | 29 (4%)
| | Taurino Salice Salentino (Italy) | 21 (3%)
| | Yellow Tail Chardonnay (Australia) | 24 (3%)
| | Zenato Pinot Grigio (Italy) | 5 (0%)
| | Other (fill-in) | 321 (51%)
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Here are the fill-in votes:
- '99 Cousino Macul Antiguas Cabernet Sauvignon (1 votes)
- 1999 FOREST GLEN SHIRAZ (1 votes)
- 2000 Falesco Vitiano (1 votes)
- 2000 Louis Bernard Cote-du-Rhone Villages (1 votes)
- A mano (italy) (2 votes)
- A Mano Primitivo (Italy) (1 votes)
- AAt 4.99 per bottle Lindemans bin Chard is a killer (1 votes)
- abadia retuerta rivola (1 votes)
- Acinum Valpolicella Classico (1 votes)
- alamos malbec (2 votes)
- Alamos Malbec (Argentina) $9.99 (1 votes)
- Alice White Shiraz (1 votes)
- allegrini palazzo della torre (1 votes)
- Anselmi "San Vincenzo" ex Soave DOC. $8. (1 votes)
- Anselmi "San Vincenzo" Soave DOC (1 votes)
- Any Kermit Lynch Cote du Rhone (1 votes)
- Anything French, as long as you buy it in France (1 votes)
- Apollonio Copertino (1 votes)
- Armador Cabernet Sauvignon (Chile) (1 votes)
- Avia Riesling (Slovenia?) (1 votes)
- BANROCK STATION Chardonnay(Australia) (1 votes)
- Beaulieu Vineyard Coastal Cabernet Sauvignon (1 votes)
- Beaulieu Vineyard Coastal Merlot (California) (1 votes)
- Beringer Founders Estate Cab(99) (1 votes)
- Big House Red (1 votes)
- Black Opal Cabernet Sauvignon (1 votes)
- Black Opal Shiraz 2000 (Australia) (1 votes)
- Bogle Merlot (2 votes)
- Bogle Petit Sirah (2 votes)
- Bogle Petite Sirah (1 votes)
- Bogle Petite Sirah (California) (1 votes)
- Bogle Petite Syrah (2 votes)
- Bonny Doon Big House Red (1 votes)
- Bordeaux (Petite Chateux) (1 votes)
- Buckley's Shiraz (1 votes)
- Buckley's Shiraz (Australia) (1 votes)
- Buena Vista Sauvugnon Blanc 2001 Lake County @Cosco @$4.99 (1 votes)
- Ca' del Solo California Big House Red (1 votes)
- Cabernet Merlot - Rosemount Estates- Australia (1 votes)
- calina (1 votes)
- Capezzana Barco Real (1 votes)
- Cartlidge & Browne Chardonnay (California) (1 votes)
- Casa Castillo Monastrell (1 votes)
- Casa Julia Sauvignon Blanc (Chile) (1 votes)
- Casa Lapostolle Cab (1 votes)
- Casillero del Diablo, Cabernet Sauvignon (Chile) (1 votes)
- Castell del Remei Gotim Bru (1 votes)
- Castle Rock Merlot (CA) (1 votes)
- chat de parazo minervois (1 votes)
- Chateau de Campuget Nimes Rouge (1 votes)
- Chateau de la Negly "La Cote" (1 votes)
- Chateau De Segries Cotes du Rhone (France) (1 votes)
- Chateau Laquirou"Le Champ" (France) (1 votes)
- Chateau Musar (1 votes)
- Chateau Pesquie Cotes du Ventoux Cuvee des Terasses Reservee (1 votes)
- Château Pesquié, Les Terrasses (1 votes)
- Chateau Tellagh 1995 (Algeria) (1 votes)
- Château Virant, cuvée Eric Verdier (Coteaux d 'Aix, France) (1 votes)
- Cheetah Valley Pinotage (1 votes)
- Chevel-Blanc (France) (1 votes)
- Cimarelli Grizio Rosso Piceno (Italy) (1 votes)
- Cline Cotes d'Oakley Red Blend (California) (1 votes)
- Clos de Tue Boeuf by Thierry Puzelat (Touraine - France) (1 votes)
- Clos du Pape Graves (France) (1 votes)
- Clos Roche Blanche Sauvignon (France) (1 votes)
- Clos St. Jean Les Calades VDP Vaucluse (1 votes)
- Colisi (Scicily) (1 votes)
- Colombia Crest Chardonnay (Washington) (1 votes)
- Colosi Sicilia Rosso 2000 (1 votes)
- Columbia Crest Chardonnay (better yet pricewise, their Semillon Chardonnay) (1 votes)
- Columbia Crest Estate Series (anything) (2 votes)
- Columbia Crest Grand Estates Cabernet Sauvignon (Washington) (2 votes)
- Columbia Crest Grand Estates Chardonnay (1 votes)
- Columbia Crest Riesling (1 votes)
- Concha y Toro - Marques de Casa Concha Cabernet Sauvignon (Chile) (1 votes)
- Concha y Toro Casillero del Diablo Cabernet Sauvignon (Chile) (Chile) (1 votes)
- Concha Y Toro Castello Diablo (Chile) (1 votes)
- conde de valdemar crianza (Spain) (1 votes)
- Cono Sur Viognier (Chile) (1 votes)
- Coppola California Red (1 votes)
- Coppola Rosso (1 votes)
- Cote du Rhone - Vidal Fleury (France) (1 votes)
- Cranswick chardonnay (Australia) (1 votes)
- cristallino, spainish cava : still $6.99 (1 votes)
- CVNE Vina Real Crianza (1 votes)
- Dallas Conte Cabernet Sauvignon (Chile) (1 votes)
- DEL PALIO SANGIOVESE (ITALY) (1 votes)
- DiMaja Chianti (1 votes)
- Dom. Pascal Cotes du Rhone (1 votes)
- Domaine de la Citadelle, Cabernet Sauvignon (France) (1 votes)
- Domaine des Cantarelles Viognier, 2001 (1 votes)
- Domaine Heresztyn Bourgogne Pinot Fin/Noir (1 votes)
- Domaine Rocher "Cotes du Rhone" France (1 votes)
- Domiane des Corbillieres Touraine - Cabernet (1 votes)
- Dry Creek Vineyards Chenin Blanc (1 votes)
- Duck Pond Chardonnay(oregon) (1 votes)
- Echeverria Cabernet Sauvignon Reserva -Chile (1 votes)
- Enotria Dolcetto (California) (1 votes)
- Escudo Rojo (Chile) (1 votes)
- falesco vitano (1 votes)
- Falesco Vitiano (10 votes)
- Falesco Vitiano (Italy) (2 votes)
- Falesco Vitiano Rosso (1 votes)
- Falesco Vitiano Umbria (Italy) (1 votes)
- Farnese Sangiovese (1 votes)
- Fontana Candida Frascati (1 votes)
- fontana morella (1 votes)
- Forest Glen Chardonnay (1 votes)
- Four Sisters (Australia) (1 votes)
- Freie Weingartner Wachau (1 votes)
- Gallo Barelli Creek '97 Cabernet (1 votes)
- Gallo of Sonoma Cab (1 votes)
- Gandia Hoya de Cadenas Reserva Tempranillo 1997 (Spain) (1 votes)
- Gato Negro (Chile) (1 votes)
- Geyser Peak Sauvignon Blanc (1 votes)
- Geyser Peak Sauvignon Blanc (California) (1 votes)
- Guigal Cote d'Rhonel (1 votes)
- Guigal Cotes du Rhone (1 votes)
- Gunderloch Riesling Kabinett "Jean-Baptiste" (Germany) (1 votes)
- Hardys Chardonnay (Australia) (1 votes)
- Hedges CSM Columbia Valley Blend (1 votes)
- Heritage Road Merlot (7 votes)
- Heritage Road Merlot or Shiraz (1 votes)
- heritage road shiraz (3 votes)
- Heritage Road Shiraz (Australia) (1 votes)
- Hogue Late Harvest Riesling (1 votes)
- Hop Kiln Marty Griffin's Big Red (California) (1 votes)
- Hugues Beaulieu Picpoul de Pinet (1 votes)
- Iche Les Heretiques VdP de l'Herault (1 votes)
- Ironwood Cabernet Franc (1 votes)
- Jaboulet Cotes du Rhone Parallel 45 (1 votes)
- Jaboulet Parallel 45 (1 votes)
- Jacob's Creek Shiraz/Cabernet Blend (Australia) (1 votes)
- Jacobs Creek Riesling (Australia) (1 votes)
- Jacobs Creek Shiraz (1 votes)
- Jean-Luc Colombo (la Violette)-Syrah (Chilli) (1 votes)
- Jimtown 2000 chardonnay - Alexander Vly (1 votes)
- Julien Meyer Pinot Blanc Pierres Chaudes (1 votes)
- Kanonkop Kadette (South Africa) (1 votes)
- Kendall-Jackson Collage 6.99-8.99 (1 votes)
- kenwood Sonoma County Zinfandel 1999 (1 votes)
- kenwood vintage red (1 votes)
- Kenwood Vintage Red ($8.99) (1 votes)
- Kittling Ridge Maréchal Foch VQA Ontario ($8.95 Cdn) (1 votes)
- Kurt Darting Riesling QBA (1 votes)
- La Cetto Petite Syrah (1 votes)
- La Tour Boisee Minervois "Marielle et Frederique" (1 votes)
- La Ville Ferme (2 votes)
- La Ville Ferme Cotes du Rhone (1 votes)
- Las Salisce Viognier (1 votes)
- Leone de Castris Salice Salentino Riserva (1 votes)
- Librandi Ciro rosso classico (Italia) (1 votes)
- Lindeman's Bin 45 Cabernet (1 votes)
- Lindeman's Shiraz (2 votes)
- Lindemans Bin 45 Cabernet (1 votes)
- Loire Cabernet Franc, eg René-Noël Legrand's Saumur Champigny (1 votes)
- Los Vascos (Argentina) (1 votes)
- Los Vascos Cabernet Sauvignon - Chile (1 votes)
- Louis Bernard Cotes du Rhone 2000 (1 votes)
- Louis Bernard Cotes du Rhone Villages (1 votes)
- Lycrema di Morro d' Alba (1 votes)
- M. Trinchero Merlot (California) (1 votes)
- Marquis Philips Syrah (1 votes)
- Mas Carlot (France) (1 votes)
- McGuigen Bin 2000 Shiraz (Australia) (1 votes)
- mellini chianti (italy) (1 votes)
- Meridien Chardonnay (California) (1 votes)
- Michel Laroche Merlot (1 votes)
- michelle chiarlo barbera d'Asti (1 votes)
- Monarch Vidal by Pelee Island Winery (1 votes)
- Mondavi Zinfandel Napa Valey (1 votes)
- Mont es Cabernet Sauvignon (1 votes)
- Montes Reserve Malbec (Chile) (1 votes)
- Montevina Amador Cty Zinfandel (Calif) (1 votes)
- Montpellier Syrah 2000 (1 votes)
- Napa Ridge Cabernet (California) (1 votes)
- Onix Priorat (1 votes)
- Osborne Solaz (1 votes)
- Osborne Solaz tempranillo/Cab Sauv. (1 votes)
- Parallel 45 Cotes Du Rhone Paul Jaboulet (1 votes)
- Paringa single vineyard shiraz (1 votes)
- Pedras Do Monte - Castelao - Portugal (1 votes)
- Pegasus Bay Riesling (New Zealand) (1 votes)
- Pelee Island Chardonnay (1 votes)
- Penascal (1 votes)
- Penascal (Spain) (1 votes)
- Penfold's Rawsons Retreat Shiraz/Cab (Aust.) (1 votes)
- Penfolds Bin 389 (1 votes)
- Penfolds Konunga Hill Cabernet Shiraz(Australia) (1 votes)
- Penfolds Koonunga Hill (1 votes)
- Penfolds Koonunga Hill Shiraz-Cabernet (1 votes)
- Penfolds Semillon/Chardonnay (1 votes)
- pepiere muscadet (esp Clos des Briords) (1 votes)
- Pepperwood Grove Pinot Noir (California) (1 votes)
- Pepperwood Grove Syrah (California) (1 votes)
- Pepperwood Grove Syrah 2000 California (1 votes)
- Pepperwood Pinot Noir (3 votes)
- Pesquie CdR (1 votes)
- Picpoul du Pinet Caves du Pomerol (1 votes)
- Piduco Classic Merlot (1 votes)
- Pierre Boniface Apremont Vin de Savoie (France) (1 votes)
- PINE TREE HOWELL MOUNTAIN CAB. (2 votes)
- Pinon Vouvray (1 votes)
- Promessa Rosso Salento 2000 (Italy) (1 votes)
- Rabbit Ridge Cabernet (1 votes)
- Rancho Zabaco Zin (1 votes)
- Rancho Zabaco Zin Dry Creek (California) (1 votes)
- Ravenswood Vintner's Reserve Zinfandel (under $10 at Sam's Club) (1 votes)
- Ravenswood Vintners Blend Merlot (1 votes)
- Ravenswood Vintners Blend Zinfandel (2 votes)
- Ravenswood Vintners's Blend Zin (1 votes)
- ravenswood zinfandel vintners blend (1 votes)
- Rene Barbier Mediterranean White (1 votes)
- RosaRossa, Viticcio (Italy) (1 votes)
- rosemont diamond label shiraz (1 votes)
- Rosemont Garnache Shiraz (1 votes)
- Rosemont Shiraz (1 votes)
- rosemount cabernet-merlot (Australia) (1 votes)
- Rosemount Diamond Label Shiraz (1 votes)
- Rosemount Estate shiraz (1 votes)
- Rosemount Estate Shiraz-Cabernet (Australia) (1 votes)
- Rosemount Granache/Shiraz (3 votes)
- Rosemount Shiraz (3 votes)
- Rosemount Shiraz (Diamond Label) (2 votes)
- Rosemount Shiraz/Cabernet (1 votes)
- Saltram Number 1 Barossa Shiraz (1 votes)
- Sanctuary Marlborough Riesling (NZ) (1 votes)
- Santa Barbara Winery ZCS (1 votes)
- Santa Emma Cabernet (Chile) (1 votes)
- Santa Ines Carmenere (Chile) (1 votes)
- Santa Rita Cabernet Sauvignon (1 votes)
- SanTelmo Malbec (1 votes)
- Sartarelli Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi (1 votes)
- Scholtzenhof, Chenin Blanc (South Africa) (1 votes)
- Sierra Cantabria (Spain) (1 votes)
- Sierra Cantabria Rioja (Spanish) (1 votes)
- Smoking Loon Syra (California) (1 votes)
- Spanish Rose' (1 votes)
- Spy Valley Sauvignon Blanc (New Zealand) (1 votes)
- St. Francis Merlot (1 votes)
- Ste. Chappelle Johannesberg Reisling 2001 (1 votes)
- Stearling (Central Coast) Cabernet!! (1 votes)
- Szekzardi Voros (1 votes)
- Talus Pinot Noir (California) (1 votes)
- Tardieu-Laurent Vin de Pays d'Oc Les Grands Augustins (1 votes)
- Tinterro Moscatto d'Asti (1 votes)
- Tommasi Pinot Grigio (Italy), Cline Syrah (California), Michel Lynch Bordeaux Blanc (France) (1 votes)
- Torres Sangre de Toro (1 votes)
- Trimbach Riesling 1999 (1 votes)
- Valdivieso Single Vineyard 1998 Cab Sauv (or any one of about 20 other Chilean wines - great QPR (1 votes)
- Vampire Cabernet (Transylvania) (1 votes)
- Vigna Flamignia, Brindisi (Ita) (1 votes)
- Vina Alarba Old Vines Garnacha (Spain) (1 votes)
- Vina Alarba Old Vines Grenache (Calatayud, Spain) (1 votes)
- VINA ALBARA OLD VINES 2001 - $4.50 (1 votes)
- Vina Porta Reserva Cabernet Sauvignon (Chile) (1 votes)
- Vinum "CNW" (Chard-No-Way) Chenin Blanc (California) (1 votes)
- Vinum Cellars PETS Petite Sirah (1 votes)
- Walnut Crest Chardonnay (Chile) (1 votes)
- Wente (California) (1 votes)
- Westrey Pinot Noir (Oregon) (1 votes)
- Wither Hills Sauvignon Blanc (New Zealand) (1 votes)
- Wolfe Blass Cabernet Sauvignon Yellow Label (Australia) (1 votes)
- Woodbridge Cabernet Sauvignon (Calif) (1 votes)
- Wyndam Estates bin 555 Shiraz (Australia) (1 votes)
- wyndham estate bin 444 cabernet sauvignon (1 votes)
- Wyndham Estates Bin 555 Shiraz (1 votes)
- Wynns Coonawarra Black Label Cabernet Sauvignon (South Australia) (1 votes)
- Yellow Tail Merlot (1 votes)
- Yellow Tail Shiraz (5 votes)
- Yellow Tail Shiraz (Australia) (4 votes)
- Yellow Tail Shiraz (Australian) (1 votes)
- Zabaco Dancing Bull zinfandel (California) (1 votes)
- Zabaco zinfandel (1 votes)
- Zenato Valpolicella (1 votes)
- Zenato Valpolicella Classico (1 votes)
- Zenato Valpolicella Classico Superior (1 votes)
- Zenato Valpolicella Superiore (1 votes)
Sept. 13, 2002
Total Votes: 489 What is your one most important factor in selecting a wine?
| Price | 46 (9%)
| | The grape or blend | 153 (31%)
| | Country or region | 45 (9%)
| | Previous experience with the wine | 66 (13%)
| | Previous experience with the importer | 5 (1%)
| | Published review | 27 (5%)
| | Wine Lovers' Discussion Group review | 5 (1%)
| | Friends' comments | 5 (1%)
| | 'Talker' or store display | 4 (0%)
| | Mood or whim | 62 (12%)
| | Other (fill-in) | 71 (14%)
|
Here are the fill-in votes:
- 1984 Heitz Martha's Vineyard (1 votes)
- A WINE THAT I HAVE NEVER HAD BEFORE - ALWAYS! (1 votes)
- All of the above (2 votes)
- As in the DB2 world, "It depends". So all or any of the above would suit. (1 votes)
- At a store: something new (varietal, etc.). Restaurant: what people are eating + price. (1 votes)
- Bottle age potential (1 votes)
- Bottle Weight (1 votes)
- Combination of (South Australian) Region, Grape Variety, Vintage, Price/Value for Money. (1 votes)
- compatability with food selection (1 votes)
- Curiosity (2 votes)
- curiosity aroused by written or oral description (1 votes)
- ease of dring pleasant quafe (1 votes)
- experience with the wine maker (1 votes)
- food compatability and accompanying guests (1 votes)
- Food to be consumed (1 votes)
- how yummy it is (1 votes)
- I haven't tried this before (1 votes)
- Impossible to have only one and ignore the rest (1 votes)
- menu (1 votes)
- My local wine merchant's opinion (1 votes)
- Navarra (Spain) (1 votes)
- never seeing a wine before (1 votes)
- one of the best deals, then ask and choose food afterwards (1 votes)
- prev. exp. or reputation of producer/region (1 votes)
- Previous experience with the Producer (1 votes)
- Previous experience with the producers range (1 votes)
- Previous experience with the winemaker/domain (1 votes)
- price/quality relation (1 votes)
- Price/Region/Grape (1 votes)
- Producer (4 votes)
- QPR (not quite the same as price) (1 votes)
- quality of the wine (1 votes)
- Quality to Price Ratio (1 votes)
- Quality-Price Ratio (1 votes)
- Ridiculous question. You first have to determine the basics, like red or white, then price, etc. (5 votes)
- Something unusual that I want to try (1 votes)
- taste/dry (1 votes)
- The food I'm serving with the wine (1 votes)
- The lack of previous experience with the wine. (1 votes)
- The taste/flavors (1 votes)
- The wine-grower's reputation. (1 votes)
- To like it when I taste it. (1 votes)
- trying something new (1 votes)
- usually try the house wine (1 votes)
- value (6 votes)
- Value - not necessarily cheap - QVP (1 votes)
- Value - relationship between quality and price (1 votes)
- Value: Overall mix of price versus quality (1 votes)
- What the group is having to eat. (1 votes)
- What I will be eating. (1 votes)
- WHAT I WILL BE ORDERING TO EAT (1 votes)
- What it will be complimenting. ie: a meal, a time of day, etc. (1 votes)
- What's for dinner? (1 votes)
- what's the weather like? (1 votes)
- When in doubt try something new (1 votes)
- Who am I sharing the wine with and what will they like. (1 votes)
- Winemaker (1 votes)
Aug. 30, 2002
Total Votes: 348 Are you buying more or fewer different wines?
| MORE: I love new experiences | 164 (47%)
| | MORE: Variety leads to better values | 87 (25%)
| | MORE: I can afford to experiment | 19 (5%)
| | FEWER: Tasted everything, know what I like | 20 (5%)
| | FEWER: I'm watching my budget | 24 (6%)
| | FEWER: Wine is too confusing these days | 2 (0%)
| | NO CHANGE | 20 (5%)
| | OTHER (fill-in) | 12 (3%)
|
Here are the fill-in votes:
- A lot more....epecially Spanish now tha the Chileans are up in price around here (1 votes)
- Cellar's full--just don't need to buy much (1 votes)
- Fewer, no room in the cellar (1 votes)
- Goes with the season. In summer, we stick to what we know well. In winter, we experiment. (1 votes)
- I like to try different brands but tend to stay within the same grape ranges (1 votes)
- I still buy my favorites for everyday, but try different wines regularly. (1 votes)
- More varietals from regions I prefer (1 votes)
- same amount but choosing cheaper wines--not reserves (1 votes)
- Sorry, but I am buying more different wines for all of the MORE reasons you have listed. (1 votes)
- sticking with reds but trying different brands (1 votes)
- Tasting within a smaller number of varieties (1 votes)
- Trying more different wines, buying fewer different wines... (1 votes)
And here are the totals for previous ballots:
Aug. 16, 2002
How much wine do you open in a month?
| 1 to 5 bottles | 130 (17%)
| | 6 to 10 bottles | 215 (28%)
| | 11 to 15 bottles | 129 (17%)
| | 16 to 20 bottles | 102 (13%)
| | 21 to 25 bottles | 64 (8%)
| | 25 to 30 bottles | 63 (8%)
| | 31 bottles or more | 53 (7%)
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And here are the totals for previous ballots:
July 26, 2002
Total Votes: 570 Do you have (or are you pursuing) a wine qualification?
Here are the fill-in votes:
- 8 week course ran by a Master of Wine (1 votes)
- Advanced Wine Assesment Course (AWRI ) Australia (1 votes)
- am currently seeking classes offered in paris (1 votes)
- Amateur Winemaker (1 votes)
- arranged suppers and tastings with friends and comparing notes over several of the same wine tasting (1 votes)
- ASEV Annual Seminars (1 votes)
- classes for general public taught by certified oenologist (1 votes)
- college and culinary school (1 votes)
- Cork Master (1 votes)
- Cornell Wine Class: HADM 430- Introduction to wine (1 votes)
- expecting to start courses toward Master Sommelier next year. (1 votes)
- formal wine tastings (1 votes)
- German Wine Academy Graduate(1978) (1 votes)
- Graduate of the Yaniger School of Consumption (1 votes)
- Home Winemaker (1 votes)
- I am a self-taught wine educator-- (1 votes)
- I own a liquor store and read many publications (2 votes)
- I prefer hands-on experience over classroom learning about wine! (1 votes)
- I read a lot of books and have tasted an average of 30 wine per week for the past 17 years. (1 votes)
- I read Wine For Dummies. (1 votes)
- I work in a wine shop. I get to learn and taste wine different wines almost everyday. (1 votes)
- I'd like to but none are available by me (1 votes)
- In graduate school, I audited "Geography of Wines" (1 votes)
- Independent t reading on my own (1 votes)
- International Wine Guild Certified Wine Educator and Sommelier (1 votes)
- internet wine class (1 votes)
- italian and french wine certificate (1 votes)
- LCBO Levels 1- 4 (1 votes)
- Lots of Books (1 votes)
- Master of Wine Technology and Marketing (1 votes)
- MoCool (1 votes)
- multiple wine tasting which are quite educational (1 votes)
- Munskänkarna level 2 diploma (1 votes)
- My father used to give me wine lessons (1 votes)
- My own diligent studying! (1 votes)
- Nine-week wine captain's course (1 votes)
- numerous books,magazines,and tastings (1 votes)
- On line wine course (1 votes)
- on-going self study (1 votes)
- Opimian Society Member (1 votes)
- Organization of Oral Osmosis (1 votes)
- PhD in Wine Law (1 votes)
- Potentate of potables (1 votes)
- Rigorous wine classes at culinary school (1 votes)
- Self directed (1 votes)
- self study (1 votes)
- self-taught (2 votes)
- seminar at wine tasting event (1 votes)
- Started my own wine education class with key note speakers (1 votes)
- studying on my own (1 votes)
- Studying on my own to help with customers at me wine shop. Looking to take a class for more info. (1 votes)
- tasting classes held by M.W. (1 votes)
- tastings (1 votes)
- Theme tasting of Premium Australian Shiraz at Aust. Wine & Education Centre in Adelaide. (1 votes)
- Wine 101 (1 votes)
- Wine Business Management Program (1 votes)
- Wine Spectator Online Course (1 votes)
- Working in a wine shop (1 votes)
July 12, 2002
Total Votes: 639 When did you become serious about wine?
| In my teens (or younger) | 41 (6%)
| | In my 20s | 259 (40%)
| | In my 30s | 194 (30%)
| | In my 40s | 107 (16%)
| | In my 50s | 32 (5%)
| | In my 60s | 3 (0%)
| | In my 70s (or older) | 1 (0%)
| | Not yet! | 2 (0%)
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June 21, 2002
Total Votes: 611 Next hot wine-grape trend?
| Albariño | 16 (2%)
| | Chenin Blanc | 12 (1%)
| | Gewürztraminer | 38 (6%)
| | Grenache or blends | 79 (12%)
| | Grüner Veltliner | 21 (3%)
| | Malbec | 128 (20%)
| | Mourvèdre | 44 (7%)
| | Pinot Blanc | 19 (3%)
| | Riesling | 112 (18%)
| | Sangiovese (but not Chianti or Brunello) | 68 (11%)
| | Sémillon or blends | 17 (2%)
| | Tempranillo (but not Rioja or Ribera del Duero) | 46 (7%)
| | Touriga Naçional (but not Port) | 11 (1%)
|
June 7, 2002
Total Votes: 579 Would you allow your children to taste wine at family meals?
| Yes (US/Canada) | 471 (81%)
| | No (US/Canada) | 14 (2%)
| | Undecided (US/Canada) | 5 (0%)
| | Yes (Rest of the world) | 79 (13%)
| | No (Rest of the world) | 7 (1%)
| | Undecided (Rest of the world) | 3 (0%)
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May 24, 2002
Total Votes: 393 What's No. 1 on your wine wish list?
| Mature vintage Port | 28 (7%)
| | d'Yquem or other great Sauternes | 30 (7%)
| | Other great dessert wine | 5 (1%)
| | First-growth or other top Bordeaux | 88 (22%)
| | Grand Cru red Burgundy | 87 (22%)
| | Great white Burgundy | 5 (1%)
| | Great Champagne | 19 (4%)
| | Top-rank Rhone red | 31 (7%)
| | Top-rank California red | 35 (8%)
| | Top-rank Australian red | 16 (4%)
| | Top-rank Italian red | 21 (5%)
| | Top-rank Spanish red | 5 (1%)
| | Top-rank German white | 10 (2%)
| | Other | 11 (2%)
| | Don't know/none | 2 (0%)
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May 10, 2002
Total Votes: 656 The wine closure of the future?
| Artificial corks in less than 10 years | 190 (28%)
| | Artificial corks in 10 years or more | 48 (7%)
| | Screwcaps in less than 10 years | 144 (21%)
| | Screwcaps in 10 years or more | 68 (10%)
| | Crown caps in less than 10 years | 21 (3%)
| | Crown caps in 10 years or more | 15 (2%)
| | Natural cork will remain dominant | 122 (18%)
| | I don't know | 5 (0%)
| | I don't care | 8 (1%)
| | Other (fill-in) | 35 (5%)
|
Here are the fill-in votes:
- Low/mid-priced mass wines: screwtops and plasti-corks. Craft and upmarket wines: genuine cork. (1 votes)
- 80% Artificial Corks, 20% Natural Corks within 10 years (1 votes)
- All hail the screwcap! (1 votes)
- artificial corks & screwcaps to be more common in 10 years or so for medium quality wines. Probably (1 votes)
- Artificial corks in five years (1 votes)
- artificial rubber cork in 10 years or more (1 votes)
- Cork is still an acceptable choice, but I don't want a good wine choice to be 'corked'. (1 votes)
- Cork with a wax cap, functional and elegant. (1 votes)
- Fine sake from Japan are all using screw caps (1 votes)
- Force fields w/ adjustable gas permiability (1 votes)
- fungus resistant cork will be developed (1 votes)
- I just purchased a $150 opener & I love it & want to openbottles with corks forever!!! (1 votes)
- I JUST WANT MY WINE TO TASTE GOOD. The cork argument is for "Cork Dorks". (1 votes)
- I probably wouldn't buy a quality wine if it had a screwcap. (1 votes)
- I think most French wines will contiue to use corks (1 votes)
- I will NEVER buy other than a cork; and I do not like the artificial ones. (1 votes)
- I'm going to hate to see corks go, but go they must :( (1 votes)
- I've been to the Future they use Soylent Green! (1 votes)
- immediately for mass market good clean wines like Ch. St Michell, Columbia Crest et al (1 votes)
- Maybe Capri-Sun style packs - good for "by the pouch" programs... (1 votes)
- Much "Champane" has been plastic corked for several yrs. why not still wine? (1 votes)
- Natural cork for high price market (1 votes)
- Natural cork will remain for as long as the current generation is alive. It will not dominate. (1 votes)
- Natural Cork will remain the closure of choice on high-end wines (1 votes)
- Once the wineries agoet over the mystique of cork perhaps a plastic flip-top safety seal. (1 votes)
- Personally, I can't taste the difference between corked and screw capped wines. (1 votes)
- screw caps will never be dominant (1 votes)
- screw caps will take 100 years to catch on (1 votes)
- Screwcaps are for rot-gut! (1 votes)
- Screwcaps for Fightin' Varietals of the Supermarket Shelf, real cork for Fine Wines (1 votes)
- Screwcaps on aromatics (1 votes)
- The world's famous houses will always uese natural corks (1 votes)
- twist-ties for the bag-in-a-box crowd; hard to beat these (1 votes)
- What are crown caps? (1 votes)
- Whatever the enclose Boone's Farm with... (1 votes)
April 26, 2002
Total Votes: 366 Did your family influence your attitude about wine?
| My family drank wine, made me less interested. | 3 (0%)
| | My family drank wine, made me more interested. | 95 (25%)
| | My family drank wine, didn't influence my attitude. | 41 (11%)
| | My family didn't drink wine, made me less interested. | 4 (1%)
| | My family didn't drink wine, made me more interested. | 18 (4%)
| | My family didn't drink wine, didn't influence my attitude. | 133 (36%)
| | I'm not from a traditional family, picked it up on my own. | 40 (10%)
| | Other (fill-in) | 32 (8%)
|
Here are the fill-in votes:
- A trip to Sonoma switched on my interest (1 votes)
- All the men drank wiskey and women very little - but wine came natural for me (1 votes)
- Family did not drink wine. Found it on my own. (1 votes)
- family drank sweet kosher wine on holidays, made me want to discover other varieties, less sweet. (1 votes)
- GrandPa made ChokeCherry and Dandelion wine. Those did not influence me at all... In fact they were (1 votes)
- Having married a French woman, I had to learn, now I'm hooked! (1 votes)
- I drank with my family from the time I was six years old. It made me more interested in wine. (1 votes)
- I learned while visitng a friend in Chile (1 votes)
- I married an Italiana, her family influenced me (1 votes)
- I took a job where I had to learn wine. (Yes I get paid to drink wine) (1 votes)
- My family didn't drink wine but insisted I should learn about fine wine. (1 votes)
- My family drank everything but wine and I picked it up on my own (1 votes)
- My family drank jug wine, didn't influence my attitude. (1 votes)
- My family drank the swilliest of swill wines (some puckery Albanian crap). I try to do better. (1 votes)
- my family drank the wine i didn't because I my attitude was more interested. (1 votes)
- my family drank wine at dinner on holidays. A friend made me more interested in good wines. (1 votes)
- My family never drank wine. Many black families didn't drink wine back then. I discovered it myself. (1 votes)
- My family taught me to understand and enjoy wine at 7 years old and I've enjoyed it ever since (1 votes)
- My family were beer drinkers. Blatz and PBR were not to my taste. (1 votes)
- My Father drank at Holiday dinners and now thinks I'm a geek (1 votes)
- my father grew grapes, made wine (for home consumption), drank great wine & I love it! (1 votes)
- My in-laws lead me to drink wine. (1 votes)
- My mother was used it in cooking; so it was around (1 votes)
- My parents drank cheap wine, so I don't think that counts as really drinking good wine. (1 votes)
- My parents weren't big wine drinkers - more spirits in the 50's. Job as a chef made me love wine (1 votes)
- Some good freinds introduced my wife and I to the new world of wine enjoyment. (1 votes)
- starting drinking fine wines as a result of working at a 4 star restaurant (1 votes)
- Sure - that box wine is vile (1 votes)
- Unopened bottle bought in Valetta confiscated on return to troopship made wine drinking top list (1 votes)
- While my parents never drank...my grandfather loved red wine, and I adored anything he adored! (1 votes)
- Wine was a closed book to them (1 votes)
- working at a 4 star restaurant (1 votes)
April 12, 2002
Total Votes: 663 Do you like 'butter' in your Chardonnay?
| Yes | 282 (42%)
| | No | 288 (43%)
| | I seldom drink Chardonnay | 93 (14%)
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March 29, 2002
Total Votes: 1514 Using the Internet for wine
| Learning about wine in general | 214 (14%)
| | Keeping up with wine news | 178 (11%)
| | Getting answers to specific wine questions | 152 (10%)
| | Reading wine-tasting notes | 212 (14%)
| | Finding food-wine matching advice | 105 (6%)
| | Seeking wine-buying advice | 133 (8%)
| | Buying wine at retail | 97 (6%)
| | Buying wine at auction | 37 (2%)
| | Trading wine | 5 (0%)
| | Selling wine | 13 (0%)
| | Planning wine travel | 88 (5%)
| | Wine conversation (forums/chat) | 125 (8%)
| | Meeting fellow wine enthusiasts | 77 (5%)
| | Finding or arranging local wine gatherings | 56 (3%)
| | Other (fill-in) | 22 (1%)
|
Here are the fill-in votes:
- Barnes&Noble free online wine course (1 votes)
- bugging Robin Garr (1 votes)
- building a wine cellar (1 votes)
- communicating with winemakers and vineyards (1 votes)
- Coop Buying Group (1 votes)
- Creating tasting notes for seminars and customer wine lists. (1 votes)
- finding historical / geographical background on vineyards/grapes/vintages (1 votes)
- finding wine friendly restaraunts out of town (1 votes)
- finding wine software; finding current prices of my wines (1 votes)
- Finding winery special events (1 votes)
- KEEP UP ON LEGISLATION ABOUT WINE (1 votes)
- keeping current on hot tubs and figs (1 votes)
- learning about wineries (1 votes)
- learning more about some Linux geek's little gag acronym.. (1 votes)
- Looking at wine-makers web sites to learn more about they're other wines and about they (1 votes)
- making wine (1 votes)
- price comparisons for retail purchase (1 votes)
- research on wineries/wholesalers/importers (1 votes)
- visiting winery web sites (1 votes)
- What are and why are table wines, jug wines. How to prevent embarrassing myself. (1 votes)
- Whining. (1 votes)
- Wine name/term pronunciation (1 votes)
March 15, 2002
Total Votes: 367 Wine budget in 2002?
| More than last year | 133 (36%)
| | Less than last year | 81 (22%)
| | About the same as last year | 135 (36%)
| | Don't know | 7 (1%)
| | Don't care | 11 (2%)
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March 8, 2002
Total Votes: 505 Here's how I store my best wines:
| Active | 201 (39%)
| | Passive | 215 (42%)
| | Room temperature | 87 (17%)
| | I don't store wines | 2 (0%)
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Feb. 22, 2002
Total Votes: 488 Lately I'm buying more wine from ...
| Alsace | 8 (1%)
| | Australia | 48 (9%)
| | Austria | 11 (2%)
| | Bordeaux | 16 (3%)
| | Burgundy | 34 (6%)
| | Canada | 5 (1%)
| | Champagne | 5 (1%)
| | Eastern Europe | 2 (0%)
| | Europe in general | 14 (2%)
| | Germany | 22 (4%)
| | Languedoc | 13 (2%)
| | Loire | 12 (2%)
| | New Zealand | 13 (2%)
| | Northern Italy | 30 (6%)
| | Portugal | 5 (1%)
| | Rhone | 64 (13%)
| | South Africa | 4 (0%)
| | South America | 18 (3%)
| | Spain | 42 (8%)
| | Tuscany | 14 (2%)
| | US/California | 47 (9%)
| | None/No change | 9 (1%)
| | Other (fill-in) | 53 (10%)
|
Here are the fill-in votes:
- All over France (2 votes)
- Argentina (3 votes)
- Cal and French Rhône w/emphasis on whites (1 votes)
- Central & Southern Italy (1 votes)
- Chile (5 votes)
- Chilean....also GD Char or GD Cab: French I think.....I look for George D. name and I buy that. (1 votes)
- France in general -- I've much to learn. (1 votes)
- France, in general. I didn't use to buy so much French wine (1 votes)
- Greece (1 votes)
- Italy (1 votes)
- Italy in general (1 votes)
- Lesser regions of the Rhone and S. (1 votes)
- My own. Taylored to my tastes, I find it better than most I buy! (1 votes)
- N.Y.-lucas vineyards (1 votes)
- New York (1 votes)
- oregon (5 votes)
- Oregon, my home state. (1 votes)
- Oregon/Washington/Idaho (1 votes)
- out of business restaurants (1 votes)
- Puglia (1 votes)
- Sam's Club-Great Prices-Mediocre Selection (1 votes)
- sonoma valley (2 votes)
- Southern Italy (2 votes)
- Southern Italy -- Apuglia-Copertino-great QPR (1 votes)
- Spain as opposed to the deteriorating quality wines from Chile (1 votes)
- Texas (1 votes)
- US/Oregon (1 votes)
- US/Sonoma Valley (1 votes)
- US/Washington (3 votes)
- US/Washington State and Chile (1 votes)
- Washington (4 votes)
- Washington state (2 votes)
- Washington/Oregon (1 votes)
- where ever value and quality offer the best combination, S. Rohne, Iberian, Midi, Argentina (1 votes)
And here are the totals for previous ballots:
Feb. 8, 2002
Total Votes: 306 What wine goes best with chocolate?
| Banyuls | 33 (10%)
| | Brachetto d'Acqui | 7 (2%)
| | Cabernet Sauvignon | 49 (16%)
| | Champagne/sparkling wine | 26 (8%)
| | Eiswein/ice wine | 6 (1%)
| | Fruit liqueur | 9 (2%)
| | Liqueur Tokay | 2 (0%)
| | Moscato d'Asti | 5 (1%)
| | Muscat/Liqueur Muscat | 9 (2%)
| | Pedro Ximenez/Cream Sherry | 5 (1%)
| | Recioto della Valpolicella | 4 (1%)
| | Riesling/Late Harvest Riesling | 5 (1%)
| | Ruby Port/Vintage Port | 31 (10%)
| | Tawny Port/Colheita | 19 (6%)
| | Tokaji | 1 (0%)
| | Zinfandel/Late Harvest Zinfandel | 30 (9%)
| | None | 8 (2%)
| | Other (Fill-in) | 57 (18%)
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Here are the fill-in votes:
- a fresh cherry or raspberry wine like framboise (1 votes)
- a very fruity framboise such as Bonny Doon's (1 votes)
- A well-made New World Merlot (even though I'm not a Merlot fan ... Paul B.) (1 votes)
- Amarone (2 votes)
- Barolo Chinato (1 votes)
- Barossa Valley Estate E& E Black Pepper Shiraz (1 votes)
- Beerenauslese or Auslese (1 votes)
- Big rich chocolatey E&E or Leasingham Sparkling shiraz (1 votes)
- Bonny Doon Raspberry Framboise (1 votes)
- Ca d'Togni (Phil Togni's sweet red) (1 votes)
- Cabernet Franc/Late Harvest Cab Franc (1 votes)
- Champagne (e) (1 votes)
- Chiroubles (1 votes)
- Cline Ancient Vines Mouvedre (1 votes)
- Clover Hill Raspberry--PA winery all-raspberry wine-multi-competition winner-heaven with chocolate! (1 votes)
- Cognac (1 votes)
- Cremant, Napa Valley (Flora grape)(Schramsberg) (1 votes)
- Dry Cherry (Oliver Winery, Bloomington, IN) (1 votes)
- Framboise (4 votes)
- fruit liqueur, specifically limoncello (1 votes)
- Fruit wine, specifically Raspberry. (1 votes)
- Geyser Peak Shiraz Port (Unfortunately only available in select restaurants) (1 votes)
- Gigondas... (1 votes)
- I must be way off, Burgundy w/ chocolate, anytime anywhere (1 votes)
- Madeira (1 votes)
- Madeira!!! (1 votes)
- Malbec (1 votes)
- Malmsey Madeira (sometimes Bual) (1 votes)
- Marechal Foch (1 votes)
- Maury (4 votes)
- Maury - Mas Amiel (1 votes)
- Maury or (red) Rivesaltes (1 votes)
- McEwan's Scotch Ale (1 votes)
- Mionetto Dolce (1 votes)
- petit syrah (1 votes)
- Pinot Noir (4 votes)
- Quady Elysium-Black Muscat (1 votes)
- Ratafia de Champagne (1 votes)
- Robust Porter with Dark Chocolate!!! (1 votes)
- Rosemount Syrah Balmoral (1 votes)
- South Australian Shiraz (1 votes)
- Southbrook Framboise (1 votes)
- Spatburgunder (1 votes)
- strawberry wine! (1 votes)
- US West Coast Pinot Noir (1 votes)
- Vin cuit de Provence (1 votes)
- white zinfandel (1 votes)
Jan. 25, 2002
Total Votes: 511 Favorite wine with pizza?
| Chianti | 93 (18%)
| | Other Italian red | 74 (14%)
| | Zinfandel | 130 (25%)
| | Other red | 41 (8%)
| | Riesling | 11 (2%)
| | Other white | 5 (0%)
| | Rosé | 10 (1%)
| | Champagne/sparkling wine | 6 (1%)
| | Australian sparkling Shiraz | 2 (0%)
| | Asti Spumante | 1 (0%)
| | Lambrusco | 5 (0%)
| | Beer! | 39 (7%)
| | Other (fill-in) | 93 (18%)
| | None | 1 (0%)
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Here are the fill-in votes:
- "A Mano" Primitivo 2000 (1 votes)
- 1)Grenache, 2)Sangiovese, 3) Zinfandel (1 votes)
- Alice White Cabarnet Sauvignon 2000 (1 votes)
- Any decent Italian red (1 votes)
- Any good red: Cabernet S./ Chianti / Rioja / Merlot, is just fine (1 votes)
- Anything Goes! Depends on the pizza. (1 votes)
- Anything with a lot of Grenache (1 votes)
- ARCIERO 1995PASO ROBLES NEBBIOLO (1 votes)
- Ausleesee (1 votes)
- Aussie shiraz (1 votes)
- barbaresco d'alba (1 votes)
- Barbera (3 votes)
- Barbera d'Alba (1 votes)
- Barbera from Piedmont (1 votes)
- Beaulieu Vineyard 2000 Napa Zinfandel (1 votes)
- Bonny Doon's Ca' del Solo -- Big House Red (1 votes)
- Boones Farm (1 votes)
- Boony Doon - Big House (1 votes)
- Bordeaux ! (1 votes)
- Brancott 1997 Patutahi New Zealand Gewurztraminer (1 votes)
- cabernet sauvignon (1 votes)
- California Sangiovese (1 votes)
- Chardonay (1 votes)
- Chardonay goes with anything! (1 votes)
- Chardonnay (1 votes)
- Château Haut-Brion 1988 (if beer is unavailable) (1 votes)
- Coppola Rosso (1 votes)
- Cote d' Rhone (1 votes)
- Cotes du Rhone (2 votes)
- Cotes du Rhone or Languedoc-Rousillon (1 votes)
- Cotes du Rhone rouge (1 votes)
- Depends on the pizza! (1 votes)
- Depends on topping, i.e.Zin/Shiraz mostly w/Pepperoni/Sausage spicy type, but beer w/Ham/Pineapple. (1 votes)
- Dolcetto (2 votes)
- Domaine Alfred, "Califa", Chamisal Vineyard Pinot Noir 1998 (1 votes)
- Falesco Vitiano (Yes, it's an "Other Italian Red" but it's a very good one. (1 votes)
- French table wine (1 votes)
- Gallo Hearty Burgundy (1 votes)
- Gewurztraminer (1 votes)
- Gigondas (1 votes)
- Good Niagara Baco Noir (1 votes)
- Grenache-based red blends (1 votes)
- Italian Chardonnay (Piedmonte) (1 votes)
- Lakeridge Reserve Cuvee Noir (FL hybrid red) (1 votes)
- Languedoc Reds (1 votes)
- Latour (1 votes)
- malbec (1 votes)
- Malbec (Cahors or Argentina) (1 votes)
- Masi Bardolino Classico (1 votes)
- Merlot (3 votes)
- montepulciano (1 votes)
- Montepulciano D'Abruzzo (1 votes)
- Montipaluciano (SP) (1 votes)
- Most any "fighting varietal" red - under $10 (1 votes)
- nice Aussie Shiraz 3-4 yrs. old (1 votes)
- Petite Sirah! (1 votes)
- Petrus (1 votes)
- pino noir (1 votes)
- pinot grigio with white pizza (1 votes)
- Pinot Noir (3 votes)
- Pinotage (1 votes)
- Primativo (1 votes)
- Primitivo (1 votes)
- Rhine (1 votes)
- Rioja (1 votes)
- Rosemount Shiraz / Carbenet or similar (1 votes)
- Salice Salentino (1 votes)
- sangeovese (1 votes)
- Sangiovese (1 votes)
- Shiraz (2 votes)
- Shiraz/Cabernet blend (1 votes)
- southern Rhone Red (1 votes)
- Spanish (1 votes)
- Spanish Rioja (1 votes)
- Syrah or other Cotes du Rhone (1 votes)
- Syrah/Shiraz (1 votes)
- Teruzzi&Puthod Peperino 99 (1 votes)
- Toasted Head Merlot (1 votes)
- Top quality Ontario Baco Noir [signed, Paul B.] (1 votes)
- Valopicella (1 votes)
- Valpolicella (2 votes)
- Valpolicella ripasso (1 votes)
- White Zinfandel (1 votes)
Jan. 11, 2002
Total Votes: 334 Old World or New?
| Started with New World, still there | 55 (16%)
| | Started with New World, now prefer Old | 72 (21%)
| | Started with Old World, still there | 91 (27%)
| | Started with Old World, now prefer New | 27 (8%)
| | I like Old and New about the same | 79 (23%)
| | Not enough experience to tell the difference | 10 (2%)
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