award winning

dmcker - Yes, I am half Japanese and half Korean. How lucky of you to be in Tokyo! I have yet to venture to my "motherland" haha. I bet you are enjoying lots of good sake, another favorite of mine. My family is actually...

You read that right. Black Box is running a contest looking for a candid take on blind tasting their wines. Simply share Black Box wines with your friends and put together a short, 2 minute or less, video of their...

A few years ago Wine Spectator announced that they will no longer do reviews on wines that scored lower than 85 or something like that. They have awarded 79 and even 69 to some wines subsequently however. Most famously...

Greg DP et al, First, my apologies for what I now see was not a very clear response to this discussion. I was actually a victim of too much editing, as I spent quite some time crafting my comments so as not to offend...

Sure, our sparkling wine is just great. We Have a lot of great "champenoise" labels here, I can suggest Miolo Brut or Miolo Millesime and Cave Geisse As reds, we have some good Merlots in the south, mostly from Vale dos...

Phillip - I hope you realize that I was not responding to your post but to kylewolf. For some reason, the post did not show up right away and suddenly there were a few posts between my response and the one to which I was...

GregT - you raise a key point, which is that scores, without the accompanying ... in the fact that a wine is "award winning" or "scored 90 points". However, I tend to drink my wines shortly after purchase, so a wine that...

kylewolf - there are many very good Rioja producers and it seems like there are more each day. There is a kind of breakdown between the "traditional" and the "modern" and that is something that some people make a big...