[question] Question submitted by Paul Walker, Australia. Why do you so rarely add new makers to your book? [/question] [answer] The intention behind my book is to represent the top 340 or so Australian wine companies across a range of price-points. To get listed, I need to have tasted and rated at least three vintages of a wine, which gives me some idea of where it fits into the market and the intentions of its maker. There are several wineries that possibly deserve to be listed in the book, since they meet these criteria, but the issue is always that I need someone to bump out before I can put a new wine in. Sometimes wineries refuse to keep sending me samples, such as Kay’s Amery, which makes the task a little easier for me. Other times, it’s hard to justify including a wine that is simply sound and well made, but nothing special. It’s always difficult making enough room to include even half of the new wines that I’d like to. I have no intention of increasing the size of the book. Any larger and it will become difficult for people to carry around in pockets, bags or glove-boxes. And given that I have no intention of making the text size (even) smaller, the layout is about a crammed as I can get away with. In addition to the article and book-based database it represents, the intention has always been for this website to host information about wineries that do not make the book. I recognise that my challenge is to keep this site as dynamic and as updated as I possibly can. [/answer]
