For my recent blog report on Prosecco, including recommendations based on a tasting of 48 current releases, see here.
For my detailed tasting notes, and suggestions on food pairings, based on a tasting of nine Moscatos currently available from BevMo, see the full report on my blog here.
Sidney Frank Importing has transformed Grey Goose into a top-selling brand with a consumer and trade print campaign that ranks the vodka as "the No. 1 tasting vodka in the world," based on a 1998 taste test of 40 vodkas conducted by the Chicago-based Beverage Testing Institute.
Their relationship was intense but not particularly faithful on either side, and it was based on a shared taste for what the French call le vice anglais.
Based on a recent tasting, the 1998 Barboursville Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve, which will be released in late October, shows every sign of developing into the best wine of the vineyard's first two decades -- no one-dimensional fruit bomb, but complex and balanced in the European style.
To decide on a price, farmers and roasters come to an agreement about what the crop is worth based on an intricate tasting process determined by Specialty Coffee Association of America (SCAA) scoring.
"It's based on a perfume that tastes of lipstick.
The approach is popular, but in September, the company also rolled out a book-recommendation algorithm, partly modeled on Netflix's formula for movies, to provide suggestions based on a user's tastes.
It also includes a provision for gathering relevant content based on a user's tastes and library in order to store recommendations offline, waiting to be unlocked by purchases made using credits.
The streaming selection will be based on a user's tastes, Businessweek says, with users able to create a station based on a specific song or an artist, and it can pull from a user's iTunes library to generate suggestions and also offer easy purchase of songs users like.
