Comments on: Wine Spectator’s Award of Excellence Gets Duped http://www.vinotrip.com/2008/08/20/wine-spectators-award-of-excellence-gets-duped/ A Maryland Wine Blog Mon, 16 Jan 2012 01:58:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Gary http://www.vinotrip.com/2008/08/20/wine-spectators-award-of-excellence-gets-duped/comment-page-1/#comment-460 Gary Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:48:41 +0000 http://www.vinotrip.com/?p=147#comment-460 You have a valid point, and plenty of people agree with you that the restaurant awards are nothing more than a list of people who paid a vig to Wine Spectator. Osteria L’Intrepido, the fake restaurant that Goldstein invented, is the restaurant of questionable existence. You have a valid point, and plenty of people agree with you that the restaurant awards are nothing more than a list of people who paid a vig to Wine Spectator.

Osteria L’Intrepido, the fake restaurant that Goldstein invented, is the restaurant of questionable existence.

]]> By: Claire Walter http://www.vinotrip.com/2008/08/20/wine-spectators-award-of-excellence-gets-duped/comment-page-1/#comment-459 Claire Walter Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:29:48 +0000 http://www.vinotrip.com/?p=147#comment-459 Pay-to-play is pretty sleazy, and while a non-existent restaurant isn't as significant as, say, non-existent weapons of mass desctruction, it's shabby and deceptive. And what, but the way, is a restaurant "of questionable existence"? Pay-to-play is pretty sleazy, and while a non-existent restaurant isn’t as significant as, say, non-existent weapons of mass desctruction, it’s shabby and deceptive.

And what, but the way, is a restaurant “of questionable existence”?

]]> By: Jon http://www.vinotrip.com/2008/08/20/wine-spectators-award-of-excellence-gets-duped/comment-page-1/#comment-458 Jon Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:06:11 +0000 http://www.vinotrip.com/?p=147#comment-458 I'm on the fence about this sort of thing, too. On one hand, if your quality control and level of effort allows you to be tricked so easily, then you deserve what you get. On the other hand, people who make a big deal out of how great they are because they "beat the system" or whatever he wants to consider this are annoying. I’m on the fence about this sort of thing, too. On one hand, if your quality control and level of effort allows you to be tricked so easily, then you deserve what you get.

On the other hand, people who make a big deal out of how great they are because they “beat the system” or whatever he wants to consider this are annoying.

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