Critic to the Wine Critic

[Thomas]

I can't comment on the specific DVD but perhaps because the focus of her "course" is geared toward a certain style of so-called traditional winemaking, and perhaps because, like the upper levels of most British wine journalists, she is deeply into the French wine scene, you interpret it to mean that she is fostering an agenda upon you when in fact, she may be teaching all that she understands or is interested in about wine.

I think that all this stuff about wine critics taking this side or that is rather strange. Critics are supposed to take sides; if they didn't they wouldn't be critics, they'd be writers, which is why I prefer wine writers over wine critics, which is why I wouldn't buy a DVD produced by a wine critic, no matter what its subject purports to be--so consider yourself lucky that you only rented it...

[This message has been edited by foodie (edited 11-03-2006).]