Of Wines, Cats, and Sailing Ships

Toyz first

A data toy to explore words and wines... you start with a wine, click, then it goes to the words that are most commonly used to describe it, then you may click on a word, and you get the wines that are described using that wine, etc., etc.

Wines, words, and no songs

Individual wine clouds

All sorts of clouds for all sorts of wines. Well, actually, the same sorts of clouds.

Individual clouds for wines

Comparative matrices, grids, whatever

Here are some comparisons I made between various wines, with different styles, formats, etc., as I played around with the data. Unfortunately the data from the Wine Advocate (aka Robert Parker and crew) were lost in the great disk crash of ought-something (it's a paid subscription, so you have to fork over the pesos to get at anything.) The Wine Enthusiast had more reviews (I think over 100K when I ran my gathering tests), but I (perhaps snobbishly so? :)) feel the reviews weren't as high quality, but still very good for the task at hand.

More heat-mappy kinds of maps, for white and reds, from the enthusiast; perhaps some of the more attractive grids, with mouseovers and such.

Reds

Whites

A comparison of the top 10 adjectives and nouns used (minus some filtered) from the Wine Advocate (all reviewers) for various wines.

Comparison of RED wine and what adj/nouns are shared (#'s are hits)
Parker only
Wine Enthusiast

Comparison of WHITE wine and what adj/nouns are shared (#'s are hits)
Parker only
Wine Enthusiast

Comparison of all wines, shared adj/nouns (#'s are hits)
Parker only

Same thing... but for top 20 adjectives and nouns.

Comparison of RED wine and what 20 adj/nouns are shared (#'s are hits)
Parker only

Comparison of WHITE wine and what 20 adj/nouns are shared (#'s are hits)
Parker only

Comparison of all wine, shared adj/nouns (#'s are hits)
Parker only