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Click here for more information > Wine-Searcher. A&B Vintners. NakedWines. At Naked Wines we define fine wines as wines that need more than one year from vine to table. This is a subject of very heated and earnest debate among wine enthusiasts, and every one of them seems to have their own definition. So we just picked the one that made the most sense to us! In our humble opinion (and there are many who would disagree) fine wines are not NECESSARILY: From classic regions like Bordeaux and Burgundy. Other less well known regions are capable of producing wines that blind taste tests rate as equivalent or even better than the classic regions.
Click here to see all our fine wines Keen to see more fine wines on the site? In September 2013, we launched a Fine Wine Bond where we raised £5 million to invest in the 'top-end' stuff. So we're well armed to take on the fine wine market with a bang - and our range of fine wines will be increasing over the next few months / years! Tanners Wine Merchants. Jeroboams. Jamie Goode's Wine Blog. Should wine critics allow personal stylistic preferences affect their judgments on wine? I recently had a discussion on twitter with a respected US wine critic from a major publication, who kept emphasizing that personal stylistic preferences had no place in his ratings. He was quite insistent. It’s a question I haven’t really considered before. I like the idea that a critic can be objective and assess wines for every palate.
If you are a big magazine, and give a single critic the remit to rate the wines from one country or region, then you need to spin this angle, and instruct the critic to be even handed to all producers. The critic is, after all, writing for all the readers of a magazine. Thus you have created the myth of an individual critic as a global arbiter of style. Admirable as this sentiment is, I don’t think this can work in practice.
Why? Balance is important in wine, and it’s a style call. Look at the tastings carried out by The World of Fine Wine. The Wine Anorak.