Wine Writing: Fact vs Opinion
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Writers have been telling us forever that Riesling has taken over wine lists, that Sherry is the hottest thing, and that nobody drinks buttery Chardonnay anymore. But none of these things are true. We look at the tricky relationship between fact and opinion-presented-as-fact in wine reporting. With Blake Gray, former wine editor of the San Francisco Chronicle and winner of the Roederer Award for Best Online Wine Writer in the world.
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