Robin Goldstein is a food and wine critic, consumer advocate, and behavioral law and economics scholar whose work focuses on blind tasting, perceptual bias, the placebo effect, and conflicts of interest in the evaluation of food and wine. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of Fearless Critic Media, a food and wine publishing house that was acquired by Workman Publishing in 2008, and the author of several books, including The Wine Trials, the world’s bestselling guide to inexpensive wine, which offers experimental evidence that everyday wine drinkers do not prefer more expensive wine in blind tastings; its sequel, The Wine Trials 2010; and The Beer Trials, a guide to the world’s beers based on blind tastings. He has published academic articles on perceptual bias in the evaluation of food and wine in the Journal of Wine Economics and Chance, and garnered worldwide acclaim (and criticism) for his 2008 exposé of the Wine Spectator’s Awards of Excellence program.
Robin also currently writes for the New York Times’ Freakonomics blog and his own Blind Taste Blog. He has reviewed restaurants and hotels for more than 30 Fodor’s travel guides, from Italy to Thailand to Argentina to Hong Kong, as well as writing travel guides for Concierge.com (Condé Nast), Let’s Go, and UpClose in Europe, the US, Mexico, and South America. In the corporate and legal worlds, Robin has worked as a strategic management consultant in the media group of McKinsey & Company in New York and as an intellectual property lawyer for Allen & Overy in London and Dewey Ballantine LLP in New York.
Robin has a J.D. from the Yale Law School and an A.B. in neuroscience and philosophy from Harvard University. He also has a certificate in cooking from the French Culinary Institute in New York and a WSET advanced wine and spirits certificate, and is a member of the Massachusetts Bar and the American Bar Association.
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1 joey perez // Jun 14, 2010 at 3:40 pm
excellent – robin goldstein is an absolute hero in the underground wine world and champion of the anti-bullshit movement in general. check out
http://blindtaste.com/2008/08/15/what-does-it-take-to-get-a-wine-spectator-award-of-excellence/
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