Comments on: The Time Out China Wine Guide: Typical aromas, light body, poor finish https://www.grapewallofchina.com/2008/01/30/the-time-out-china-wine-guide-typical-aromas-light-body-poor-finish/ Wine and the World's Biggest Market Sun, 03 Feb 2008 19:02:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: admin https://www.grapewallofchina.com/2008/01/30/the-time-out-china-wine-guide-typical-aromas-light-body-poor-finish/#comment-675 Thu, 31 Jan 2008 08:48:34 +0000 http://www.grapewallofchina.com/2008/01/30/the-time-out-china-wine-guide-typical-aromas-light-body-poor-finish/#comment-675 @ 8 Songs,

Yes, the strategy is pretty surprising, given Time Out’s global reputation.

Incidentally, the newest issue of Beijing Time Out includes restaurant awards and the magazine editorial states, in what comes off to me as a curious mix of chutzpah and defensiveness, that there are “no advertising tie-ins.” Such a statement would hold much more weight if the magazine hadn’t published its wine guide just one issue earlier “in association” with one wine distributor. It’s an “actions speak louder than words” thing.

Cheers, Boyce

]]> By: 8 songs https://www.grapewallofchina.com/2008/01/30/the-time-out-china-wine-guide-typical-aromas-light-body-poor-finish/#comment-674 Thu, 31 Jan 2008 04:27:31 +0000 http://www.grapewallofchina.com/2008/01/30/the-time-out-china-wine-guide-typical-aromas-light-body-poor-finish/#comment-674 Dear editor,

the problem with such a publication as this wine guide is that the strategy behind it was either accidental or deliberate, and which ever was the cause of this outcome, both choices leave one wanting to throw the thing in the bin. Which is what I did with my copy.

Cheers,

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