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>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.


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