Comments on: Guest opinion: Craig Camp takes on James Suckling http://vinowire.simplicissimus.it/2008/10/08/guest-opinion-craig-camp-takes-on-james-suckling/ A news wire from the world of Italian wine. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:28:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Craig Camp http://vinowire.simplicissimus.it/2008/10/08/guest-opinion-craig-camp-takes-on-james-suckling/comment-page-1/#comment-1892 Craig Camp Thu, 16 Oct 2008 22:09:20 +0000 http://vinowire.simplicissimus.it/2008/10/08/guest-opinion-craig-camp-takes-on-james-suckling/#comment-1892 Discredited means they are not great vintages, just very good vintages and that they certainly are not 100 and 99 point vintages. Would you rate them perfect and almost perfect? Discredited means they are not great vintages, just very good vintages and that they certainly are not 100 and 99 point vintages. Would you rate them perfect and almost perfect?

]]> By: Loren Sonkin http://vinowire.simplicissimus.it/2008/10/08/guest-opinion-craig-camp-takes-on-james-suckling/comment-page-1/#comment-1870 Loren Sonkin Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:10:31 +0000 http://vinowire.simplicissimus.it/2008/10/08/guest-opinion-craig-camp-takes-on-james-suckling/#comment-1870 What does totally discredited mean? 97 and 00 are great vintages. Perhaps not as great as 96, 98, 99, 01 and 04, but there was across the board quality. And the 97's are turning out to have more lasting power than many thought "despite" their ripeness. What does totally discredited mean? 97 and 00 are great vintages. Perhaps not as great as 96, 98, 99, 01 and 04, but there was across the board quality. And the 97′s are turning out to have more lasting power than many thought “despite” their ripeness.

]]> By: Tom Hyland (journalist) http://vinowire.simplicissimus.it/2008/10/08/guest-opinion-craig-camp-takes-on-james-suckling/comment-page-1/#comment-1841 Tom Hyland (journalist) Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:37:16 +0000 http://vinowire.simplicissimus.it/2008/10/08/guest-opinion-craig-camp-takes-on-james-suckling/#comment-1841 Maybe those designer sunglasses of Suckling have given him super vision. Perhaps he is the only one who can truly see that 1997 and 2000 were superior vintages in Piemonte as compared with 1999, 2001 and 2004. Every winemaker I have spoken with in Piemonte agrees with Craig Camp and myself, as does virtually every other wine writer. In short, Suckling was wrong, but he's not about to admit it. Maybe those designer sunglasses of Suckling have given him super vision. Perhaps he is the only one who can truly see that 1997 and 2000 were superior vintages in Piemonte as compared with 1999, 2001 and 2004.

Every winemaker I have spoken with in Piemonte agrees with Craig Camp and myself, as does virtually every other wine writer. In short, Suckling was wrong, but he’s not about to admit it.

]]> By: Craig Camp http://vinowire.simplicissimus.it/2008/10/08/guest-opinion-craig-camp-takes-on-james-suckling/comment-page-1/#comment-1834 Craig Camp Thu, 09 Oct 2008 05:20:14 +0000 http://vinowire.simplicissimus.it/2008/10/08/guest-opinion-craig-camp-takes-on-james-suckling/#comment-1834 I'm sure that James Suckling is a fine taster and true professional. However, he was out and out wrong about these two vintages and should give in and correct his now totally discredited rankings of the 97 and 2000 vintages in the Langhe. I’m sure that James Suckling is a fine taster and true professional. However, he was out and out wrong about these two vintages and should give in and correct his now totally discredited rankings of the 97 and 2000 vintages in the Langhe.

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