Vitiblog

Source : Fermentation: The Daily Wine Blog

It's fairly unusual for this blog to reprint comments for the sake of a new post. But in this case, I think it's warranted, despite my better judgment—which some would say is on the wane and they may prove to be right

dhonig, a commenter on this post, and a fine wine blogger, wrote the following as a response:

"The whole thing boils down to a claim that it is "unethical" to commit to writing an unbiased review as a condition to receive a bottle of wine. When pressed as to exactly why that is unethical, how it devalues the unbiased review, the answer is, uselessly, "because it is unethical [..]