Wine Is Often Full of Surprises

By James Laube
Posted: Monday, December 04, 2006

One way for a wine critic to look like an absolute genius is for his barrel reviews to match up perfectly with his scores for the released wines. Imagine how impressed everyone would be if every wine.....

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