I loved your thoughtful take here, Agnese. You gave us so much excellent analysis. And thank you for your effort in tracking down these six bottles from the list! Would love to know your Top 5.
Great video and yes, I think making another one with your personal top 5 (out of the 100) would be nice and interesting. There are some gems further down in the list... As for the list itself: I am kind of excited each year when the list comes out and at the same time I hate it for the reasons you pointed out in the video. Generally speaking it is too heavy on (expensive) U.S. wines and it clearly drives the prices for the top 10 up. But at the same time I have to admit that it puts a smile on my face when I see a wine in the Top 10 that I bought during the year, like the Tignanello 2021. I know it is silly, but it is the truth. So I am sure I will be excited next year in November again and again hope that the list will not include wines from South Africa, Etna or any other of my favorite regions for very selfish reasons... 😉
I absolutely understand You, I feel very similar. Tracking down these wines and opening them up for the tasting was still a lot of fun and exciting for me. And who cares if we might not be as happy with the general list itself. 🍷 Cheers!
I have to admit that I am very fortunate because I don’t have to rely on these lists. I live near a store that buys out cellars (plenty of Burgundy to choose) and each week is a discovery and each trip to the store is an outing. Just like field trips in high school.
I would have to agree somewhat. While there is no reason that older classics, cannot be the top wines of the year. After all, they are some of the top houses. I would hope for the sake of the future, these publications would focus on the bang for your buck wines. This leads to a topic discussed by the “Attorney Somm” wine usage trending downward and your discussion on defining fine wines. At least that’s how I see it. But as always: Enjoy the sunlight held together by water. 🍷
Absolutely, there is no reason for those wines to not be on the list - they are great after all. My argument was more towards the availability and that also includes prices - so they will be even more limited now. 😔
verdict and consensus should be and should have been years ago that Wine Spectator as a publication is laughable sources for anything wine related. its a wine themed live style magazine that sells articles as ads. and obviously i fully agree with all your criticisms.
I work at a restaurant that used to carry William-Selyem with multiple vintages. It's very good, but there are many better. Many of these wines are really good, but like Apple, you are paying more for the name than the wine.
Well, but it still brings in attention , even here so far away in northern Europe this top drives up sales. So at least people who sell the wine take it very seriously. 😉😉😉
I stopped caring about wine lists because I know that the oldies but moldies are always going to be included. The Finger Lakes makes some of the best wine in the world and none of these lists will ever include them. So meh. Where is a Dr. Konstantin Frank or Boundary Breaks Riesling? I guess Riesling just doesnt rate good scores he he he he he. There are so many great wine regions that just get ignored because they arent California, France or Italy.
I loved your thoughtful take here, Agnese. You gave us so much excellent analysis. And thank you for your effort in tracking down these six bottles from the list! Would love to know your Top 5.
Thank You, You are being so sweet and supportive. 🙏🏻🙏🏻
wow. your truth bombs needed to be said. thank you for having a voice on this.
Great video and yes, I think making another one with your personal top 5 (out of the 100) would be nice and interesting. There are some gems further down in the list...
As for the list itself: I am kind of excited each year when the list comes out and at the same time I hate it for the reasons you pointed out in the video.
Generally speaking it is too heavy on (expensive) U.S. wines and it clearly drives the prices for the top 10 up.
But at the same time I have to admit that it puts a smile on my face when I see a wine in the Top 10 that I bought during the year, like the Tignanello 2021. I know it is silly, but it is the truth.
So I am sure I will be excited next year in November again and again hope that the list will not include wines from South Africa, Etna or any other of my favorite regions for very selfish reasons... 😉
I absolutely understand You, I feel very similar. Tracking down these wines and opening them up for the tasting was still a lot of fun and exciting for me. And who cares if we might not be as happy with the general list itself. 🍷 Cheers!
And by the way, I was thinking that Enta and SA wines would definitely make great additions to this list. Similarly I was thinking about Rias Baixas!
@@NoSediment.. but we keep this for ourselves. Promise? 😂😂😂🤭
Wonderful video as always! Yes, I'd love to hear your personal top 5 or 10!
Thank You very much, You are so sweet. 🙏🏻 Cheers! 🥂
I have to admit that I am very fortunate because I don’t have to rely on these lists. I live near a store that buys out cellars (plenty of Burgundy to choose) and each week is a discovery and each trip to the store is an outing. Just like field trips in high school.
Thanks for the outing Agnese.
That is the best, when You have a retailer near buy that You can trust! No tops needed! 😎
You're always the top, on the top one list of Sommeliers Agnese. 🍷
I would have to agree somewhat. While there is no reason that older classics, cannot be the top wines of the year. After all, they are some of the top houses.
I would hope for the sake of the future, these publications would focus on the bang for your buck wines.
This leads to a topic discussed by the “Attorney Somm” wine usage trending downward and your discussion on defining fine wines.
At least that’s how I see it.
But as always: Enjoy the sunlight held together by water. 🍷
Absolutely, there is no reason for those wines to not be on the list - they are great after all. My argument was more towards the availability and that also includes prices - so they will be even more limited now. 😔
Do we want another video from No Sediment? Well yes, of course we do!!!
You just put the biggest smile on my face, thank You’ 🙏🏻
verdict and consensus should be and should have been years ago that Wine Spectator as a publication is laughable sources for anything wine related. its a wine themed live style magazine that sells articles as ads. and obviously i fully agree with all your criticisms.
I work at a restaurant that used to carry William-Selyem with multiple vintages. It's very good, but there are many better. Many of these wines are really good, but like Apple, you are paying more for the name than the wine.
No actual wine or hospitality person takes Spectator seriously, they take advertising from wine companies so they cannot be honest......
Well, but it still brings in attention , even here so far away in northern Europe this top drives up sales. So at least people who sell the wine take it very seriously. 😉😉😉
So long as it gets more people drinking wine I’m in! 🎉🎉
I stopped caring about wine lists because I know that the oldies but moldies are always going to be included. The Finger Lakes makes some of the best wine in the world and none of these lists will ever include them. So meh. Where is a Dr. Konstantin Frank or Boundary Breaks Riesling? I guess Riesling just doesnt rate good scores he he he he he. There are so many great wine regions that just get ignored because they arent California, France or Italy.