Comments on: “French Wines are the Best in the World” http://www.ukwinesonline.co.uk/wp/french-wines-are-the-best-in-the-world/ your guide to online independent wine and drink merchants in the UK. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:29:10 +0100 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Richard Ehrlich http://www.ukwinesonline.co.uk/wp/french-wines-are-the-best-in-the-world/comment-page-1/#comment-50 Richard Ehrlich Thu, 21 Dec 2006 00:41:38 +0000 http://ukwinesonline.co.uk/wp/?p=20#comment-50 Andrew, I stand corrected. Thanks for letting me know. Richard Andrew, I stand corrected. Thanks for letting me know.

Richard

]]> By: Andrew http://www.ukwinesonline.co.uk/wp/french-wines-are-the-best-in-the-world/comment-page-1/#comment-49 Andrew Wed, 20 Dec 2006 21:05:02 +0000 http://ukwinesonline.co.uk/wp/?p=20#comment-49 Well Richard - I'm a blogger and I go on Press Trips (Prosecco earlier this year, litterally just come back from Bordeaux today) and I attend as many tastings as I can; including Waitrose. Well Richard – I’m a blogger and I go on Press Trips (Prosecco earlier this year, litterally just come back from Bordeaux today) and I attend as many tastings as I can; including Waitrose.

]]> By: Richard Ehrlich http://www.ukwinesonline.co.uk/wp/french-wines-are-the-best-in-the-world/comment-page-1/#comment-47 Richard Ehrlich Wed, 20 Dec 2006 00:21:22 +0000 http://ukwinesonline.co.uk/wp/?p=20#comment-47 Frenchduck wrote: "Ehrlich has always been one of my favourite wine writers, as he was always looking for something interesting and different, always inquisitive and did not just write up the latest trade or press tasting he’d been to. He will be missed!" I am deeply flattered to read this, after discovering it while searching for something completely different! I know that I took a "fairly broad swipe" at wine bloggers in the piece referred to here, but I really didn't mean to say there is nothing valuable out there in the wine blogosphere. In time, some of the bloggers may come to be as highly regarded as their counterparts in print journalism. But one thing that will separate the two for some time, I suspect, is the access that print journalists are given to tastings, seminars, press trips, and all the other privileges that professional wine writers are granted. [For the record: I am a drinks writer, covering beer, spirits, cocktails, tea, coffee etc. as well as wine.] Those privileges give the established print-based wine writers a breadth and depth of tasting experience that's currently denied to most bloggers. I'll know that blogging has arrived when I see a blogger at a Waitrose tasting. Hope it happens soon. And Frenchduck, thanks again for your kind words. Richard Ehrlich Frenchduck wrote:

“Ehrlich has always been one of my favourite wine writers, as he was always looking for something interesting and different, always inquisitive and did not just write up the latest trade or press tasting he’d been to. He will be missed!”

I am deeply flattered to read this, after discovering it while searching for something completely different!

I know that I took a “fairly broad swipe” at wine bloggers in the piece referred to here, but I really didn’t mean to say there is nothing valuable out there in the wine blogosphere. In time, some of the bloggers may come to be as highly regarded as their counterparts in print journalism.

But one thing that will separate the two for some time, I suspect, is the access that print journalists are given to tastings, seminars, press trips, and all the other privileges that professional wine writers are granted. [For the record: I am a drinks writer, covering beer, spirits, cocktails, tea, coffee etc. as well as wine.] Those privileges give the established print-based wine writers a breadth and depth of tasting experience that’s currently denied to most bloggers.

I’ll know that blogging has arrived when I see a blogger at a Waitrose tasting. Hope it happens soon.

And Frenchduck, thanks again for your kind words.

Richard Ehrlich

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