I was listening to the Wine Biz Radio podcast the other day and they mentioned a great blog post from the 1WineDude blog about rapid fire wine assessment.  This post made me hang my head in shame.  I am super guilty of this.  I often try to nail down my feelings on a wine in the first couple of minutes.  Most of the time my assessment of a wine shifts some from the first glass to the second, and certainly by the next day.  It's really pretty unfair to complete my evaluation of a wine on the first glass.

From the post -

And that is, the rapid-fire assessment, review, and perfunctory judgment of any given wine.  We are judge, jury and executioner of the glass’ contents, often within the span of two minutes.

We see this happen all the time – in fact in some cases (like certain Twitter Taste Live events, or the “speed dating” wine blogging at the Wine Bloggers Conference),
it’s encouraged and necessary.  I often participate in and have grown
to love those events, provided that we don’t take them too seriously.

And we shouldn’t take them seriously, at least as far as true wine
appreciation is concerned.  Why?  Because every glass of wine, from the
pedestrian to the sublime, is speaking to you, trying to tell you
something about itself – you need only take the actual time to listen
to it.

In the case of many wines made in the ‘Old World’ style (what my compadre Randall Grahm calls Modernist), where typicity of place and nuanced complexity are the goals, that message may be “Come back later.”  New World (Postmodernist)
wines usually (and probably unfairly) fare better in rapid-fire
evaluation scenarios, precisely because they more often offer their
treasures quickly and liberally – “Hey! Over here! I’m talkin’ to YOU!”

Our society has this problem in all kinds of areas.  We tend to rush things.  Wine is definitely something that is meant to be experienced more patiently.  I think that us wine bloggers should really evaluate wine more thoroughly before we throw our opinions up on the interwebz for everyone to see.  It wouldn't hurt to try the wine fresh out of the bottle, decanted, and even a day later before we post a review.  This would be more fair to the wine, and give you readers a more reliable view of the wine.  I will certainly be trying to do right by my wine, if for no other reason than to avoid the Chuck Norris roundhouse to the head.