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How Important Is a Tasting Note?

Posted: Aug 7, 2007 11:30am ET

A recent newspaper column addressed an issue that's been debated before: the worth of wine tasting notes. Some people don't think wine tastes like mocha or prune—it just tastes like wine—and they think that critics are blowing smoke by using such descriptors.

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