i know of a number of paid services but would like to save money and get ratings/reviews without paying.
What is the best (comprehensive, upto date, quality of review) web resource for FREE online ratings of Wine.?
2 Responses to What is the best (comprehensive, upto date, quality of review) web resource for FREE online ratings of Wine.?
Free is tough, but if it’s what you want, then look no further than http://www.wineaccess.com. It’s actually an aggregator of wine retailers (and more, but I won’t get into it)–the catch is that you can only check out Steven Tanzer’s reviews if one of their wine retailers has the wine in stock. Not sure how broad ST’s reviews go, but he seems to cover a lot of US and French wines. They have supplemental reviews by other another rater called CGCW.
http://www.wineaccess.com
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Another good way of seeing what the top reviewers scores are for free is to go to Wine auction sites (for the more expensive higher rated wines). In an effort to help sell their lot, the auctioneer will post the recent score and notes for their bottle from Wine Spectator, Robert Parker, and Stephen Tanzer.
As far as personal opinions, they’re a dime a dozen, and can be found on forums and blogs.
Auction sites:
http://www.winecommune.com/
http://www.winebid.com/
Forum:
http://www.erobertparker.com/bboard/boardintro.asp
Blogs:
http://volunteer.blogs.com/
http://winetaster.blogspot.com/
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