Welcome to the only independent, reliable and free digital wine guide made by French experts! Few words of explanation.
INDEPENDENT
La Tulipe Rouge declares having no conflicts of interest related to its wine evaluation activities. Indeed, La Tulipe Rouge maintains no financial relationship with any producer, cooperative, or merchant that could influence its operations. For example:
- We do not sell advertising directly or indirectly linked to any producer, cooperative, or merchant.
- We do not sell tasting events, medals, or other promotional items to producers, cooperatives, or merchants that could lead to biased wine reviews.
- Tastings are conducted blind, without any preselection system or additional sales.
EXPERTISE
The tasters of La Tulipe Rouge are all professional wine tasters with considerable experience (20 to 40 years of expertise). Always open to learn and discover, whenever possible they taste together as a team. These four friends introduce themselves over here.
RELIABLE
All wines are treated equally during blind tastings to avoid favoritism toward podium regulars and negligence toward unknown wines that may be overlooked for the wrong reasons.
Wines are evaluated using a protocol tailored to their price category (you cannot assess a wine under €20 on the same scale as a Premier Grand Cru Classé from Bordeaux!) and according to their consumption objectives, illustrated by our rating system.
As for wines tasted but not selected—yes, there are some—they are not listed on La Tulipe Rouge’s website. Mentioning them would not benefit our readers, and their rating could harm an estate that may have other wines selected in our guide!
BUSINESS MODEL
Our model is primarily based on subscriptions to www.tulipe-rouge.com and advertising targeted at sponsors without ties to any producer, cooperative, or merchant.
This allows tastings to be conducted blind, without preselection systems or additional sales, ensuring complete independence.
TESTIMONIALS
What better proof than the testimonies of winemakers, amateurs and professionals! They talk better about La Tulipe Rouge than we do!