This bulletin board on Robert Parker's Web site
attracts geeky and very well-informed tasters, so the
discussions can be quite serious. A post from Alex
Anthopoulos, a.k.a. Dr. ScrewCap—"I still just
don't 'get' why and how it is that restaurants with
wine lists attempt to justify a 300 percent (or more!)
markup on a bottle of wine as a necessary cost of
doing business"—sparked a heated debate about
restaurant economics, with more than 700 replies.
Robin Garr runs one of the Web's oldest wine forums
on his encyclopedic Wine Lovers' Page, which debuted
in 1994. This easy- to-navigate discussion forum
accommodates the novice and expert alike. Newbies will
like postings with travel tips about wineries, while
the more experienced will enjoy the detailed tasting
notes and polite discussions.
Regular participants in this site's forum are
called "patients" who are "in therapy" (to cure wine
obsession?), but the discussions are blessedly sane.
Though this board doesn't have as many posts as some
of the larger forums, the ones here are low-key and
intelligent; many members are wine-industry insiders,
such as Joe Dressner of the Wine Importer blog.
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