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I use this wine key: Forge de Laguiole Ebony
I have used this glass in this Video: Stem Zero Powerful Red Wine Glass
I have tasted the following wines in this Video:

2022 Greywacke Sauvignon Blanc New Zealand (95 WS)
https://www.wine-searcher.com/find/gr...

2020 Antinori Chianti Classico Italy (95 WS)
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2019 Dunn Vineyards Howell Mountain Napa California (96 WS)
https://www.wine-searcher.com/find/du...

2016 Mastroberardino Taurasi Radici Riserva Italy (95 WS)
https://www.wine-searcher.com/find/ma...

2020 Château Lynch-Bages Bordeaux France (96 WS
https://www.wine-searcher.com/find/ly...

2021 Occidental Freestone Pinot Noir West Sonoma Coast USA (94 WS)
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2018 Argiano Brunello di Montalcino Italy (95 WS)
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The 100 Point Scoring System (from www.robertparker.com):
96-100: An extraordinary wine of profound and complex character displaying all the attributes expected of a classic wine of its variety. Wines of this caliber are worth a special effort to find, purchase and consume.
90 - 95: An outstanding wine of exceptional complexity and character. In short, these are terrific wines.
80 - 89: A barely above average to very good wine displaying various degrees of finesse and flavor as well as character with no noticeable flaws.
70 - 79: An average wine with little distinction except that it is soundly made. In essence, a straightforward, innocuous wine.
60 - 69: A below-average wine containing noticeable deficiencies, such as excessive acidity and/or tannin, an absence of flavor or possibly dirty aromas or flavors.
50 - 59: A wine deemed to be unacceptable.

Every year since 1988 Wine Spectator has put together a list of their wines of the year. They say that their selection is based on quality, value, availability, and excitement which are fancy words to say that they are picking widely distributed wines they like. Usually, the top 10 wines do not consist of all of the highest-rated wines that year because very few people would be able to get most of these Cult wines.

The list is generally dominated by the classic wine regions and red wines play a much bigger role in their selection. This year’s top 10 featured only one white wine. Overall, there is rarely a real surprise amongst the top 100 but there are some unexpected picks like the 2022 Garzón Albarino from Uruguay in 52 place that I recently tasted on this channel.

Some regions and wine styles are chronically underrepresented: There were only 2 Rieslings from Germany, only one Rioja, only one wine from Austria, and one from South Africa in the top 100 and none in the top 10.

This year 4 wines in the top 10 were from the US, 3 were from Italy, two were from Bordeaux, and one – the only white – was from New Zealand. Like last year Wine Spectator presented their top 10 in slightly cheesy videos but professionally produced videos …

But am I the only one who noticed that they filled the glasses too high, presented them wine next to a sealed bottle, and used a Bordeaux glass for a Burgundy wine … My friends at Wine Spectator – I am watching you. I always love looking back at the old top ten lists and you can find all of them on their website going back to the first one.

I picked the one from 30 years ago and the number one wine was 1990 Latour at 80$ - a wine that would easly cost 10 times that. Ornellaia was in 8th place and it did cost a whopping 42$ back then and Domaine Roulot Meursault Les Tessons Clos de Mon Plaisir was listed at 34$ … I really should have started investing in wine during my time at elementary school.