wine spectator

The Barossa Valley clearly provides a consistent array of pretty impressive stuff - although admittedly, the chocolate mousse intensity of some highly extracted Shiraz examples from the better vintages can be tiring on...

As I understand it, Robert Parker does get some flack for being a lover of big, jammy fruit bomb shiraz from Australia. I am not sure if this would be one of those, but it falls in line with his usual high scores for...

YoshiYoshi I am a relative newcomer to wine as well. I rely heavily on the ... reviewers. I mostly rely on Wine Spectator, if they give it a 90, it's a 90). We all have a budget as well and I find that a 87 or higher...

To GregT: I will poste a short "introductory post" soon. Hopefully next week, ... into TOP 100 wines by Wine spectator. Regarding articles about Slovenian (Slovene) wines, I do recommend that you perhaps also read Britt...

There was a pretty good article in the Wine Spectator last month (or was it two months ago) about a Slovanian wine maker. I think the winery was Movia ... very interesting and has definitely intrigued me about Slovenian...

After reading the Italy issue of Wine Spectator, I was inspired to try Nero d'Avola. So I insisted that we review it for our weekly podcast. We chose the 2008 Feudo Arancio Nero d'Avola, which I really enjoyed. Has anyone...

A local wine merchant advertised a sale on an Australian Cabernet quoting a 97 ... I checked the same wine on Wine Spectator it was an 89. What do I make of this? Is it a 90 point wine or not and is the "sale" a good...

Just ran across this old thread from a year ago (which was before I joined Snooth so it wasn't part of my personally retrievable DB): http://www.snooth.com/talk/topic/wine-spectator-wine-of-the-year/ A couple of things of...

Just saw that the Seghesio Zinfandel Sonoma County 2007 got '10th best' wine in ... the nearly 20,000 wines that Wine Spectator reviewed: http://www.winespectator.com/webfeature/show/id/4107