Corkd.com Tasting Notes at Retail

If you write wine reviews on corkd.com, you might start seeing your reviews on a wine display at a store near you. I'm working Augusta, GA this week, and saw accolades on wines for sale at the White Horse Beer & Ale store attributing ratings and tasting notes to corkd.com. Big Vine Napa Cabernet Sauvignon was allegedly rated a 94 on corkd (I couldn't find it on the site), and Red Hawk Winery Cabernet Sauvignon was rated a 92. The Red Hawk review and score came from the user "winewriter", the actual average score was 91. The wholesaler in GA for these wines is LaFayette Distributors. They obviously are scouring the web far and wide for ratings to help sell their wines....

I've read others in the blogosphere speculating as to how long it might be before we start to see wine accolades quoting blogs. This is an interesting development in that regard. As someone who blogs about wine on corkd.com and on this site, I'm not sure that my tasting notes would belong on a retail shelf when compared to a professional wine writer/taster, but it's an interesting development nonetheless.