By Jon McDaniel At most retailers and purveyors of wine in America, you will see a hanging tag right below a bottle of wine. Most likely, this tag will have a number between 87-100, the wine name and a 25 word description about the wine. Some marketing genius was able to encapsulate every aspect of [...]
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By Jon McDaniel Every year, the who’s who of wine writers get together and release their version of the top wines of the year. For some publications, like Wine Spectator, it is a Top 100 wines that you cannot get nor afford. Wine Enthusiast publishes their Top 100 wines to drink at an Occupy Wall [...]
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By Jon McDaniel One of the most controversial topics in the wine world today deals with “To Score or Not to Score”. Now this may bring some of you back to that nervous drive up to Make Out Point, but to those of us in the wine business, the topic of rating wine is becoming [...]
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