Linkin’ logs 8-4-11

Scanning the Web to bring you the constant variety of wine news, the thrill of hilarity and the agony of “OMG, did he really do that?”:

*Now this is my kind if tasting note, especially the metaphors. And it appears that, in Europe at least, super-snarky wine reviews are permitted.

*So you think you want to be a Master of Wine? Perhaps this report by the redoubtable Jancis Robinson will dissaude you. Or maybe not.

*Lawyers can be pretty funny folks, as the brutally honest quote at the end of this account shows.

*Generally I’m not a Luddite about machines doing the work of homo sapiens, but I’ll trust any number of individuals’ palates over this.