Like many of you, we have been known to purchase a bottle or two of wine as we travel through various wine countries or visit our local wine store. And, like you again, what makes us buy a particular bottle at any given time is a function of so many factors that to try and list them all would be folly. But have you ever thought seriously about what stops you from purchasing a wine that you might otherwise enjoy? The cost of the juice? Your financial picture that day? Or maybe you simply don’t like the salesperson and decide you aren’t going to buy from them.
Have we become a nation of people who are afraid to be critical of things that are nonsense? When did the wine community decide it would almost universally muzzle its public comments regarding their dislike of a system which allows a shockingly few people and publications to literally have a major say in determining the level of success of every winery on the planet?
