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Category: Wine Rating

My Palate vs. an “Expert” Palate

July 2, 2013
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It’s curious how wines can taste different when drinking inside vs. outside, hot weather vs. cold weather, high-altitude vs. low, seasonally, from one day to the next and certainly as time passes and wines age. Most importantly, however, is that wines can taste very different from one palate to another. Last week we sampled some…

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What’s in a rating?

July 27, 2011
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Recently, I drank an excellent Australian red wine, of which the brand and grape variety are rather irrelevant to this particular discussion.  What is relevant is that when I, out of curiosity, checked the ratings for this wine from both “The Wine Spectator” and “The Wine Advocate”, one publication scored it 92/100 and the other…

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