Comments on: Coffee is just like wine, except different

By: Condé Nast’s Coffee Drinking Guide « CoffeeRatings.com - Our Nomadic Home

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:33:45 +0000

[...] of over-roasted and darkly roasted coffee, who can blame anyone? But as much as we tire of the ubiquitous wine analogy for coffee, the recent focus on light roasts isn’t far off from all the people who are now [...]

By: Espresso News and Reviews - TheShot.coffeeratings.com » Vintage Trend: When wine is nothing like Starbucks

Wed, 06 Jun 2007 04:30:31 +0000

[...] weekend’s New York Times Magazine featured an article that sort of did a reverse take on the ever-popular wine analogy for coffee: Vintage Trend - Retail Wines Chains - Wines - Alcoholic Beverages - Alcohol - Consumed [...]

By: Espresso News and Reviews - TheShot.coffeeratings.com » Wine taster Angela Mount and Percol coffee join forces

Wed, 04 Apr 2007 23:17:54 +0000

[...] As much as I don’t like the overly simplistic wine analogy for coffee, the wine snobs are starting to pay their respects to coffee — and the over 1,300 aromatic and flavor compounds it offers more than wine. The latest example comes from the UK: New Consumer | News | Wine taster Angela Mount and Percol coffee join forces. [...]

By: Espresso News and Reviews - TheShot.coffeeratings.com » Coffee fans toast what they roast

Thu, 22 Feb 2007 01:45:53 +0000

[...] Too often, restaurants, cafés, stores, and, well, coffee drinkers treat roasted coffee as if it were imported wine rather than fresh baked bread. (Another reason why I don’t like coffee’s wine analogy.) Nobody would think twice about buying wine shipped in from Italy, sitting on a shipping pallet for a month while it crossed multiple oceans. But their bread? Be serious. (Illy or Lavazza, anyone?) [...]

By: Espresso News and Reviews - TheShot.coffeeratings.com » A New Year’s Coffee Resolution?: A Moratorium On Snake Oil Articles About Coffee

Thu, 25 Jan 2007 17:54:46 +0000

[...] Of course, we’ve seen many prior forms of the unnecessarily polarizing “coffee: medicine or poison?” article. What made this one different is that it was featured prominently in the most notable consumer magazine for wine drinkers. Isn’t that a bit like Cigar Aficionado magazine citing the latest medical research on the dangers of eating red meat? For all the people who insist on making wine analogies for coffee, we seem to be holding coffee to a different health standard than we have for wine. [...]

By: Espresso News and Reviews - TheShot.coffeeratings.com » Mysterious ‘Meth Coffee’ launches in San Francisco

Fri, 12 Jan 2007 01:42:00 +0000

[...] Now it’s no secret that I’ve been ranting a lot lately about how caffeine addiction has been made synonymous with a love of coffee — in ways where we wouldn’t presume that a wine aficionado is naturally an alcoholic. (The hideous wine analogy rears its ugly head yet again!) But come on… “Meth Coffee”?! I just read today that bath soap qualifies as an instrument of caffeine delivery: A New Type of Java Jolt: Caffeinated Soap. Is the Dove Unscented Meth Beauty Bar up next for a little Fight Club-like marketing? [...]

By: Espresso News and Reviews - TheShot.coffeeratings.com » Espresso done right is intense — a full-bodied, stop-time moment to savor

Thu, 11 Jan 2007 15:38:33 +0000

[...] But, as Corby Kummer, author of The Joy of Coffee, is quoted in the article, “I hate it when people use a wine analogy for coffee.” Lately, I have caught myself using a balsamic vinegar of Modena analogy. Acidic vinegar doesn’t sound like the kind of appetizing thing you might, say, pour over ice cream. But if you’ve ever had aged balsamic vinegar of Modena, you know just how sweet and syrupy — and so unlike its wine-based American counterpart — it can be. The same is true when comparing a true espresso with the typical American version. [...]