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High scores at the expense of regional identity

Is the quest for high scores obscuring the
regional identity of wine?

Sonoma Valley (AVA)

Lost in the Numbers

An old Terroirist’s commentary on Wine-by-Numbers and the loss of Regional Tipicity.

by Dan Berger
December 24, 2005



It has been a couple of decades since we’ve been asked to take on faith the concept that a great wine is one that a self-proclaimed expert perceives it to be without any evidence whatever of the essential components of the wine being there.

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