Is the quest for high scores obscuring the
regional identity of wine?
Lost in the Numbers
An old Terroirist’s commentary on Wine-by-Numbers and the loss of Regional Tipicity.
by
Dan Berger
December 24, 2005
It has been a couple of decades since we’ve been asked to take on faith the concept that a great wine is one that a self-proclaimed expert perceives it to be without any evidence whatever of the essential components of the wine being there.
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