While the KP Spouse and I were enjoying the German Riesling we had with our roast pork and sauerkraut on New Year's, we were lamenting the lack of tasing notes that we take when we drink wine; in short, we have only a sketchy history of the many interesting wines we've tasted over the years. So we have been thinking about capturing our tasting notes in some way, and naturally we thought of doing so via a blog.
Then we got to thinking about this whole "aggregation of knowledge" thing, and we realized that if we could capture the tasting notes of our friends who like wine, we'd have quite a useful repository of knowledge, for ourselves and for others.
Thus Oeno Files. We have asked a few of our friends and family to join us in using this site as a repository of useful knowledge about our wine experiences.
A few things: we will organize our notes by varietal and by region; the regions are pretty general, and we will use the tags feature to include more specific detail (e.g., St. Joseph in a tag, Rhone as the category, although the region could also be a tag, because that enables Technorati and other engines to search on the region tags too).
We haven't picked a sole metric for evaluation. I am partial to taking the Wine Spectator or Wine Advocate number ratings and dividing that number by the price (i.e., quality per dollar). In fact, that's what Neil Monnens and the good folks at QPR Wines do in their publication. But if we are coming up with our own evaluations, I'm not sure that we all want to use a number rating. So another option is letter grading. I'll probably use both in my first few posts, and we can see how that evolves over time as we all use it.
OK, let's drink!
