
Recent and impending developments affecting the retail wine market:
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Josh Raynolds provides extensive on-site coverage of two fascinating and very different vintages: the extreme 2003s, which range in quality from roasted and weird to monumentally rich, and the highly promising 2004s, from a pain-free growing season that many growers describe as near-perfect.
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Joel Payne, co-author of Gault Millau's annual Guide to German Wines, offers an in-depth report on this classic spätlese vintage, a year in which the ripening came late.
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Two thousand three will take its place among the outstanding port vintages of recent decades. Coverage includes tasting notes on all of the most important wines.
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My reviews of new wines from California includes a host of pinot noirs from all over the state, running the style gamut from pungent, minerally and Burgundian to soft and chocolatey-sweet.
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