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Hello every who is interested in wine !
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http://www.winesworld.net


http://www.winesworld.net
 is now updated, please take a look!
A couple of comments, since you posted on AFW and IHV (why not FRBV,
shy?) and you have plugged your site before; I dont mind a plug from
regulars or at least known group members, but I don't remember reading
you on either group...
1) most wines you review, unless they are a chateau something, are
identified partially, only giving the appellation and omitting the
producer. Using dice as a rating system seems strange, the element of
randomness I suppose, but alright, ratings are 1 to 6.
2) Alain Graillot's Crozes H is rated 5, same as Mouton Cadet. Forgive
me if I am sceptical. Vieux Telegraphe 94 rates a 4, the same as ...
Vampire Pinot Noir from Romania (I admit I have not tasted it, so I
cannot say it sucks). 
3) On Italy, on the basis of your strange selection of wines you
discount an entire country with "...Sometimes it's good, sometimes
bad, and sometimes it's right out shocking! ... Don't invite a special
guest if you haven't allready tasted the wine....It's quantity before
quality.". Aaaaaaaal-right! One country nuked. The IHV guys must love
ya.
4) You like Spain because wines are oaky. You write "...most of the
wine is oaky and barrel-aged. In contrast to the simpler French wines
which most of the time is stored in steel-barrels.... it is much
better to buy a Spanish wine instead. You will get more value for the
money." Oooooooo-kay. Or rather, oak-yyyyyy. France is also hit.
5) Again France, you say "they are very different indeed, sometimes
even if two wine's are from the same district, they aren't allways
similar... try to get a well known wine, it is a lot of exciting small
winehouses in France, but it seems many of them are there 
just to use the district's name of France to sell their wine...". Come
to think of it, it was a good idea not to post on FRBV...
6) Where is Germany? On second thought, never mind.
Mike


Hi there !! nice of you to comment our site.  First of all can you tell me
what FRBV is ??
The site is ment to work for us who are realy amateurs when it comes to
drinking wine.
So if I would like you to tell me what we can do better or what we should do
different.
We are doing the dice thing because a rate from 60-100 is far to difficult
for most of the
people we have regularry visitting our site.
And many thing we write in this site is mabe particullary interesting for
people living in Norway,
but we do give some advice for people on what wine they should by, in case
they are far out......
And what about Germany ?
Best Regards Morten Pedersen
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different.
I appreciate it is an amateur site, and the NG is open to amateurs and
pros alike. It would have been more polite to at least start posting
on the NG so that we can get to know you before pointing us to your
site, you must understand that we get all kinds of spam and most of us
don't like it.
The most obvious improvements would be to:
a) tone down the generalizations about entire countries, your tasted
sample is not sufficient to judge so broadly, and you might find that
Italy, France, others all have some gems at decent prices from honest
small producers.
b) bring in more tasters, you seem to be heavily biased towards
heavily oaked wines that are indeed seductive but not always very
complex and interesting. Thus you have rated some truly good low-oak
wines on a par with some low-end high-oak wines. Ratings are
difficult, text comments are more interesting.
c) identify your wines precisely. Barolo on its own means nothing, and
the photos are hard to read. Say it is a Barolo 1999 Vigneto Arborina
from Elio Altare, not just Barolo.
Oh, at least acknowledge the existence of Germany, go out and buy a
couple of bottles, taste them and post them. And when you get around
to them, Austria, etc..
Good luck
Mike

 wrote in message
news:e5egkuc25ocs41ep2...@4ax.com...
Thanks for taking the time to help the guy; I wrote several drafts and
deleted them due to lack of diplomacy that you obtained.

And a little remark from me: The points by dice (1-6) is pretty common in
Norwegian newspapers - 6 being given to wines with a high QPR...
A recent test gave 5 to the Cloudy Bay Chardonnay 2000 and 6 to Santa
Carolina Chardonnay Reservado 2000 at less than half the price
Anders

Hello again !
I now have added a www-forum on our site.  So please do join in and we both
want a lot of comment and remarks to our site.
We always want to make it better and better................
And BTW thanks to Mike who has help us with some god tips lately, and I have
been doing a lot of updates since
I postet this link a couple of days ago.
Have a good day!
Winesworld staff (or rather Morten and Klaus.)