Minding the gap
Excerpted from Thinking, Hard and Soft What you say isn’t always what you mean. It is one thing to talk about the probability of an event or about how much you enjoyed your dessert wine. It is another thing to commit to a number consistently. What odds are you willing to accept? How does this wine or stock rate against the others that you evaluated today? Professional wine critics write and rate. The word cloud above represents a selection of the most frequent words in about 8,000 wine notes written by 12 popular wine writers. It gives an impression of what is said. Most of these wine notes also include a score. No matter how many words are in the note, this is what it boils down to. 98 points from Robert Parker can make a wine’s price rocket, 72 points won’t. A wine writer might argue that you can’t really separate a score from its note. The score is justified by the note and vice versa. In an interview, wine critic Neal Martin said: I don’t see …