What's your approach to posting TNs here?

[Joe_Hauck]

@Robert Alfert

@Matt Latuchie

i do enjoy posting Loire/Jura/Burgundy notes on ebob though…

Tooch -

Post your Loire notes here, especially Chinon and Saumur! I do not recall ebob having that much action on Loire reds when I played over there, pre-wall.

Robert, are you on FB?. If so join the Loire Valley Wine Enthusiasts page.

[Peter_Petersen]

@M Champney

@Paul H Galli

@M Champney

Paul, couldn’t you get a buddy who’s still on eBob to login and download all your TNs to a spreadsheet, then you could upload them to your CT (which has a download to WB function). Kind of going around your ass to scratch your elbow but in the end you’d (we’d!) have non-squirrely access to all your notes!

I honestly don’t know anybody who is a member of eBob (they are a dying breed…)
I would think it would be a monumental job copying all my tasting notes and adapting them to a spreadsheet.

Are you volunteering???

TTT

heh heh heh, for a nickel, I will!

I was assuming that there was an automated way to get the notes out, if there’s not, wouldn’t work. Sad all that is wasted!

There is (or was) a very easy way to compile all your notes on ebob. I experimented as I was trying to prove to someone else that it would be no effort to do it. Alas, I no longer belong so I can’t help at this point.

[Peter_Petersen]

Btw, I’d also admit that I post very very rarely on wines, but I honestly feel that my notes say very little. Wine is wine, neither words nor points can adequately describe the experience. Nor do I belong to CT as I persist in the illusion that I can remember all my wines and everything I drink without notes.

[GregT]

I’ve realized that I get more enjoyment from a bottle when I can just sit and drink without having to analyze every aspect of it.

Joe - perfect.

If there’s one thing that makes me crazy, it’s the idea that you can’t sit down with a bottle of wine w/out people pulling out pens, tablets, whatever. I taste chocolate carefully, also tea, coffee, oranges, cheese, meat, pretty much everything, and wine is one more thing to taste, savor, and enjoy w/out recording for posting and posterity.

At my house, people are decreasingly inclined to write TNs because it’s frowned on! Just sit back and enjoy it for heaven’s sake.

That said - Ralph - I agree w Roberto. That’s actually a pretty good note!

[Brian_G_r_a_f_s_t_r_o_m]

@Brian Tuite

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TNs are subjective as we all have different palates anyhow so the value is based solely on whether your palate agrees with mine or not…

I disagree with this. If you and I have different palate preferences, but I am aware of where those differences lie and you have a consistent palate, then your notes would be helpful to me, even though our palates wouldn’t necessarily “agree.”

[AndrewH]

@Mark Alcorn

Craig;

Funny you should post this today as last night I actually tried to post a TN from CT to WB and couldn’t figure out how to do it. I think I’ve done it before to WB, I know I did to ebob. I know you do it (or I think you do). I had a great 2007 Turley Dusi and 03 Le Cadeau the other day that I was going to post about whether people here like domestic or not .

On the beta site there’s a drop-down arrow next to your tasting note that allows you to publish it to another site. WB is first in the list.

[Brian_G_r_a_f_s_t_r_o_m]

@Robert Alfert

@Matt Latuchie

i do enjoy posting Loire/Jura/Burgundy notes on ebob though…

Tooch -

Post your Loire notes here, especially Chinon and Saumur! I do not recall ebob having that much action on Loire reds when I played over there, pre-wall.

and Vouvray and Sancerre, please!

[mike_pobega]

I wish more notes were posted here. I know a handful that do their bit, but it always seems lacking when compared to the squires board of old.
I post as much as I can for a few reasons: 1) to have a record of where I have been and what I have drank, not to mention the minor point of what I thought of it. 2) I think adding my notes (as well as others adding theirs) to this communities pages strengthens the forum in wealth of information to others who actually may be interested to read them. I am always reminded (and shocked) how interested people always are to read my notes here, so it sort of feeds itself. Sound weird when I read that back to myself, but I can’t think of a better way to say it.

Notes are an important part of this place.

Greg, I usually find some people taking notes when I have wine dinners at my house and in all honesty, I certainly do not frown on it. We are wine people, and it is what we do. I wish I had the time myself, but with all the cooking and serving/clearing going on, it becomes quite difficult. Now, if I were at a formal dinner with great wines,I will be very low key about any note taking I do, especially if non wine spouses are present, I mean I wouldn’t want them to think I was a dick or anything…

@Humberto Dorta

I post becauseI read what others write if the wines interest me. Someone has to hold the cali wine flag along w king cab

I love doing my share of flag holding.

[alan_weinberg]

posted much more on eBob and upset to lose them–some really nice Burg visit stories and notes. Hard now to mount the energy to post–and haven’t been drinking as much interesting stuff.
alan

[mike_pobega]

@Roberto Rogness

You forgot an option for:

I’m ITB and every time I mention a wine I really like (and thus bought some to sell) people accuse me of a conflict of interest.

Between that and the rumor I just heard that the ability to link other sites in posts here will be eliminated, I feel for you brother.

In all honesty, I know that this is a valid reason many do not post notes here. Take it another direction and once people know that added to the regular itb disclaimer, any note you DO post will automatically have value, no? Just looking at it another way.

[John_Morris]

@Mike Maguire

So your telling me that one varietal, Burgundy,is posted on more often than all American varietals together.I think you kind of made my point didn’t you?I’m not trying to start a war,the question was asked and I answered honestly.

In addition to the TNs on Californian wines, there are a LOT of threads on mailing list offerings, shipping dates, and so on, for which there are no corresponding European threads.

As for non-US wines, there’s very little here on Bordeaux, or Spain, or Germany beyond Donnhoff, or even Tuscany. So, yes, there are a lot of Burgundy lovers here, but it’s not like this is an anti-California forum. It’s just spotty, reflecting the community’s preferences.

[Matt_Latuchie]

@Brian G r a f s t r o m

@Robert Alfert

@Matt Latuchie

i do enjoy posting Loire/Jura/Burgundy notes on ebob though…

Tooch -

Post your Loire notes here, especially Chinon and Saumur! I do not recall ebob having that much action on Loire reds when I played over there, pre-wall.

and Vouvray and Sancerre, please!

i certainly try posting all my Loire/jura/burgundy notes here too…but over on ebob talking about anything other than CdP/BDX/Cali Syrah/Cali Cab gets weird looks, so it’s fun to stir the pot a bit.

[Sherr1_Shap1r0]

I would love to read more tasting notes. Admittedly, I don’t post them but that’s because of a bad experience back on the WS board years ago when I got flamed for posting that I enjoyed a wine despite it being too tannic.

[Brian_Tuite]

@Brian G r a f s t r o m

@Brian Tuite

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TNs are subjective as we all have different palates anyhow so the value is based solely on whether your palate agrees with mine or not…

I disagree with this. If you and I have different palate preferences, but I am aware of where those differences lie and you have a consistent palate, then your notes would be helpful to me, even though our palates wouldn’t necessarily “agree.”

You know, I didn’t look at it that way. Well put!

[A_Gillette]

@alan weinberg

posted much more on eBob and upset to lose them–some really nice Burg visit stories and notes. Hard now to mount the energy to post–and haven’t been drinking as much interesting stuff.
alan

Alan -
I hope you will post more. The burgundy lovers on the board really want to hear what you have to say.
A

[A_Gillette]

I tend to post notes on every wine I drink provided that I can put my recollections down within a period of time that I believe they are still fresh. I have no illusions about my tasting notes being particularly good or useful to others, but I hope that they sometimes provide a useful frame of reference or a viewpoint that can start an interesting debate or bring out a viewpoint that is different than mine. Writing notes is, for me, incredibly difficult. But I think that if I continue to try, I will be rewarded many years from now when I look back at this board. I think of the postings by Alan Weinberg, Jeremy Holmes, Robert Thornton and Stuart Niemtzow and how valuable they have been to my exploration of burgundy and I hope that over time I can achieve a similar level of expertise. There is a lot of work that goes into having that level of expertise and I feel posting notes and trying to respond to comments on them will help me get there.
A

[Glenn_L_e_v_i_n_e]

I could give a shit whether folks post in follow-up to a tasting note I write or flame me while disagreeing. Loads of my notes have but one post, in others loads of folks disagree with my observations and impressions but who cares? I have considerable real life problems that take my attentions, as I’m sure others do as well.

What I would like is for the mods to streamline all the vintage-specific notes as the search function is too often ignored.

[Brian_G_r_a_f_s_t_r_o_m]

@Sherri Shapiro

I would love to read more tasting notes. Admittedly, I don’t post them but that’s because of a bad experience back on the WS board years ago when I got flamed for posting that I enjoyed a wine despite it being too tannic.

Please post your notes, Sherri! Don’t mind the fools.

[craig_v]

Mark, I wouldn’t be on CT without your help. Surely you can figure out how to post a TN from CT to here?

@Mark Alcorn

Craig;

Funny you should post this today as last night I actually tried to post a TN from CT to WB and couldn’t figure out how to do it. I think I’ve done it before to WB, I know I did to ebob. I know you do it (or I think you do). I had a great 2007 Turley Dusi and 03 Le Cadeau the other day that I was going to post about whether people here like domestic or not .

[craig_v]

Regardless of posting style, its really helpful if the poster tells us how long he/she opened the wine for and the decant if done.