Wine Spectator Site Down This Week; Do We Care?

by Tim on 9/17/2007

Wine Spectator Off-Line (at the moment)I’ve been a subscriber to the Wine Spectator online since I let my print subscription lapse a few years back. It just seemed to be a waste of paper piling up for the various roundups, Top 100 listings and occasional articles that would attract my attention. So the web version seemed like a good idea, if only to save some trees and clutter in the house.

I wouldn’t have otherwise noticed the current outage of the Wine Spectator website today but they sent me an email informing me that they would be down for the entire week. I guess it’s not just a database problem that could be recovered from in a few hours at most sites; they went down hard.

But I’m not sure if it matters much given all the other choices for reading about wine online these days. So maybe I should cancel when they come back online and try Robert Parker’s online subscription (I do miss Neal Martin’s prose)?

Or maybe I should just save my money all together?

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EG 9/17/2007 at 7:06 pm

How am I gonna know if I like a wine I am drinking when the Wine Spectator can’t tell me how good it is?

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