Bloggers and journalists,
For there to be of great wines, it is necessary, as so aptly Denis Dubourdieu, winemakers to produce these great wines, traders who can sell, consumers who will want to buy them, and the fourth condition of critical wine to assess, noted: “Some bloggers and journalists” … This is not a fable but a drama in 3 acts and probably told in 10 lines:
1) First, the advent of the Internet, bloggers, social networks (anyone can give advice, with or without talent, often with no experience and no expertise, and always to his self-promotion!)
2) Then disappearance of the press, critics and the press in particular wine or wine critics (less than 300 journalists writing about the vineyard, the wine, the food in France!) No money, no resources, no independence, no daring.
3) And the third act of disappearance of the wine review …
Thus, lost by the multiplicity of references, sources, prices, the consumer loses confidence and protects itself by reducing its purchases of wines! The stakes are high. To avoid the crisis, journalists and publishers, paper or digital, should meet to restore meaning to journalism wine, redefine the art of criticism. Finally, it will accept a certification of actors critical of the rating by one authority, otherwise the digital technologies could impose the dictatorship of a virtual democracy.

It’s Friday night… turn a blind eye Pamela! ;)