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100-Point Rating: Curse or Blessing?

Posted: Sep 19, 2007 12:31pm ET

Recently I got into one of those circular-cum-rhetorical exercises with friends about whether it's a curse or a blessing for a winemaker to earn a 100-point rating on his or her first wine. Maybe there’s an easy answer and maybe there isn’t.

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