tasting notes

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My detailed take on important horizontals and verticals, with the odd diagonal comment thrown in for good measure, usually with my scores out of 20 and, unusually, suggested drinking dates because I feel very strongly that the wine trade doesn’t give us consumers nearly enough advice about when to drink specific wines. For more explanations see My scoring system and What my scores mean

See also the tasting notes list  for a list of all the major vintage assessments on this site, although remember this is by no means an exhaustive list of all the thousands of tasting notes here. To find specific tasting note(s) use the tasting notes search.

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