Some things are a matter of perspective.<\/p>\n
At Wine Sediments, Andrew Barrow asks “Why do newspapers treat wine like poor cousin?<\/a>” <\/p>\n He’s talking about wine coverage in the UK. On the other hand, during a recent visit to London, Peter Haydon of Meantime Brewing<\/a> talked about how little coverage beer receives in newspapers despite the fact that it accounts for 80% of alcohol sales in England.<\/p>\n “There’s a huge amount of snobbery against beer,” said. “If you open the Sunday paper it’s wine, wine, wine.”<\/p>\n Gooden apparently isn’t lamenting how much is written, but what. <\/p>\n Why is it that these magazines seem fine to review a restaurant with the final bill coming in at \u00c2\u00a360+ (US$110) per head, but the wine column on the same page is suggesting \u00c2\u00a33.99 or \u00c2\u00a34.99 (sub US$10) wines?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n He’s not talking just about restaurants. He points to a story that “recommends a beauty cream that retails for \u00c2\u00a356 a tub and an eye-shadow at \u00c2\u00a315 (US$27)” while noting that wine writers mostly stick to suggesting lower prices wines.<\/p>\n Then he asks a more complicated question:<\/p>\n Restaurant reviews are often “bad.” [To summarize, wine reviews seldom are.]<\/p>\n In fact I don’t think I have ever read a poor wine review. They are always positive. Perhaps the limited copy space for the humble wine writer restricts them to writing up the good stuff.<\/p>\n Why are wine and wine critics dealt with so differently from other critics in newspapers?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Good question, and probably one that should be asked about beer as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Some things are a matter of perspective. At Wine Sediments, Andrew Barrow asks “Why do newspapers treat wine like poor cousin?” He’s talking about wine coverage in the UK. On the other hand, during a recent visit to London, Peter Haydon of Meantime Brewing talked about how little coverage beer receives in newspapers despite the … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beer-wine"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-L","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9776,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions\/9776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}