Surprise, Surprise: ‘Wine Spectator’ Whores Itself Out

Posted on August 22, 2008 by Gary McCarty

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The big fix–as in the big bought award–are no big thing in food and wine circles, or elsewhere.

I’ve been a lone voice long exposing the original Iron Chef for its fixed results. If not outright changing or stuffing the ballots, Chairman Kaga had an ace up his sleeve: He’d use the women at the end of the table–the so-called culinary critic and the all-too-real fortune teller–to be his hitmen (women). Listen to their comments and you’d know who was being set up for the loss.

So it comes as no surprise that Wine Spectator has prostituted itself and its restaurant awards, honoring a nonexistent restaurant and its cellar list of wines it officially abhorred in print–all for a $250 registration fee.

Read how Robin Goldstein exposed the magazine with his illusionary Milan eatery Osteria L’Intrepido and its wine list that included a 1993 Amarone Clasico Gloe S. Sofia, once labeled by the magazine as "paint thinner and nail varnish."

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