TASTING WINE SPECTATOR Top 10 – The Best of the Best?

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I use this wine key: Laguiole en Aubrac Wine Key Ebony
I have used this glass in this Video: RIEDEL Performance Riesling
I have tasted the following wines in this Video:

2019 Chateau de Beaucastel Chateauneuf-du-Pape Rhône, France – 108 US $
2019 Marchesi Antinori Tignanello Toscana IGT, Italy – 174 US $
2019 Chateau Talbot Saint-Julien, France – 105 US $
2019 HDV Hyde de Villaine Hyde Vineyard Chardonnay Carneros, USA – 93 US &
2018 Schrader Cellars Double Diamond Napa Valley, USA – 97 US $

The 100 Point Scoring System (from www.robertparker.com):
96-100: An extraordinary wine of profound and complex character displaying all the attributes expected of a classic wine of its variety. Wines of this caliber are worth a special effort to find, purchase and consume.
90 – 95: An outstanding wine of exceptional complexity and character. In short, these are terrific wines.
80 – 89: A barely above average to very good wine displaying various degrees of finesse and flavor as well as character with no noticeable flaws.
70 – 79: An average wine with little distinction except that it is soundly made. In essence, a straightforward, innocuous wine.
60 – 69: A below-average wine containing noticeable deficiencies, such as excessive acidity and/or tannin, an absence of flavor or possibly dirty aromas or flavors.
50 – 59: A wine deemed to be unacceptable.

The Wine Spectator is a widely distributed wine magazine and they have put together a Top 100 list each year since 1988
Their editors select the most exciting wines from the wines they reviewed during the year. They are not necessarily picking the most highly rated wines but also look at the price and availability,
I rarely read the Wine Spectator as I think that it is more of a lifestyle magazine and I don’t like the fact that they allow advertisements of producers that they are also supposed to review independently.
This is a problem in wine writing in general. Magazines are today relying heavily on money from wine producers and how are you supposed to objectively review a wine from a winery that pays the bills?
On a lighter note: I just had a look at the first Wine Spectator Top 100 from 1988 and it is quite funny: First of all, there is a lot of Bordeaux, Burgundy, and Barbaresco among the best wines, and only two wines from the US in the Top 20
Domaine de la Romanée-Conti Richebourg is listed at 210 US$, Petrus at 160 US$, and Caymus Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley Cuvée at 12 US$, double the price of Antinori’s Santa Cristina … How times have changed!

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