The topic of wine ratings also reminds me of the famous battles
over whether better wines come from California or France.
Wikipedia provides a good entry into the story, along with the
individual ratings by the judges and the good question of whether
differences in these ratings are
California wine has been terminally Parkerized ('jammy') and French
wine is moving that way.
Personally, I like: Pacific Northwest; New Zealand (Oz is going the
way of California) and Spain.
There are still very good French and Italian wines, but they are
getting priced beyond my reach.
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