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What is The Wine Quotation?
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Tastes are passing trends, sometimes for the best. Once fashionable excessively oaked wines, widely promoted by international wine-critics, are no longer sought-after.
Today, both wine professionals and amateurs are once again turning themselves towards more balanced wines in which the terroir and the winemaker skills can be fully expressed. Today, the wine industry gives another chance to wines the quality of which is not written in capital letters on the label but delicately unfolds in the tasting glass and on the palate.
"The Wine Quotation" presents a useful selection of wines and Champagnes corresponding to these criteria and carefully tasted by a great wine-critic: Laurent VIALETTE.
A renowned sommelier and wine-critic, a permanent member of the European Grand Jury, Laurent VIALETTE committed himself to taste all the wines quoted in this book with all his professional objectivity.
Two different rates were given to each vintage; the black one indicates the wine's structure and power while the red one evaluates its elegance and finesse. Comprehensive tasting notes give all the necessary details regarding the wine, including its ageing potential.
"The Wine Quotation" provides all wine-lovers with an objective and trustworthy wine guide on which they can rely with all confidence on any occasion.
| 80-85 |
Wine well balanced very pleasant to taste |
| 85-89 |
Wine excellent quality, with aromas and delicatesse |
| 90-94 |
Wine with remarkable quality who combine volume, finesse and complexity |
| 95-99 |
Exceptionnal wine, extroardinary, the best in their category, outstanding |
| 100 |
Marvelous, exceptionnal, spectacular, extraordinary |
| Wine Ratings |
| Regions |
2000 |
1999 |
1998 |
1997 |
1996 |
1995 |
1994 |
1993 |
1992 |
1991 |
1990 |
1989 |
1988 |
Saint-Julien, Pauillac
Saint-Estephe |
94 |
89 |
85 |
87 |
94 |
93 |
87 |
85 |
79 |
75 |
98 |
90 |
87 |
| Margaux |
93 |
90 |
86 |
86 |
88 |
88 |
86 |
85 |
75 |
74 |
90 |
86 |
85 |
| Graves |
93 |
89 |
89 |
87 |
86 |
89 |
88 |
86 |
75 |
74 |
90 |
89 |
89 |
| Pomerol |
94 |
89 |
96 |
88 |
85 |
92 |
89 |
87 |
82 |
58 |
95 |
93 |
89 |
| Saint-Emilion |
94 |
89 |
96 |
87 |
87 |
88 |
86 |
84 |
75 |
59 |
98 |
88 |
88 |
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