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Wine Spectator ratings...

207.200.116.66

>BTW, just got some bad news on a wine purchase. I ordered some Siduri Sonoma pinot noir (my 18 bottles allotment) which has always been a great cost/quality value. WS gave it 80. Ouch.>
Regardless, it's just one person's opinion.
A few years back, I had just recieved my half case allocation of Dowling Family Vinyard's Fly By Night zinfandel, maybe the 2003.
The Wine Specatator arrived with a big zinfandel issue and probably rated over 100 different ones.
At the bottom, with 63 points, was the Fly By Night. I think the wine scoring right above it was in the high 70s. I'd never seen a wine with a score that low.
I tasted it and it was terrific - one of my favorites zinfandels of that vintage.
I wrote WS a letter and gave them a hard time about it and said they must have tasted a bad bottle. They said they tasted more than one so they had to be right.
Let me know what you think of the Siduri.

Edits: 10/31/09

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Hopefully JL was having a bad day. - jimbill 15:06:48 10/31/09 (0)

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