Arrogance, Fraud & What’s To Come
Yeah, the Wine Spectator got used. Toward what purpose I′m not sure. But they did get used by granting an wine list award to a fictitious restaurant. The upshot is that the Awards will be more closely monitored. I′m not real up in arms over the “scandal″.
But that’s just me. As Steve Heimoff points out, “The reaction has been fast, furious and worldwide, with the weight of opinion running heavily against Wine Spectator.”
Not a surprise. Everyone appears to like to see the influential among us get a comeuppance. It seems that the degree of comeuppance that the powerful sometimes experience is exactly equal in weight and measure to how much more important we each feel we are for having observed the comeuppance. Human nature.
ARROGANCE IS PART OF THE GAME–EMBRACE IT
But, Steve struggles with an explanation for why the Wine Spectator is being pounced on so hard and why there appears to be so much ill feeling against the magazine. But he does have an idea:
“The one thing I can come up with, at least from my California point of
view, is that there