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Wine Spectator editors review more than 15,000 wines each year in blind tastings, providing scores, tasting notes and drink recommendations. We set stringen...

Ratings reflect how highly our editors regard each wine relative to other wines in its category and are based on potential quality—how good we expect the wi...

Finished wines, reviewed from bottle in blind tastings, are given a single score. For some types of wines, such as Bordeaux, which is sold as futures, Wine ...

Almost every wine features a Release Price, which is the suggested retail price upon first release—the price a consumer will typically pay at a retail store...

Many collectible wines—wines that may age well and appreciate in value over time—display auction prices, which reflect the average price for which the wine ...

Based on a taster’s years of experience with this type of wine, the drink window suggests when the wine is likely to be at its best. It typically covers a r...

“Drink now” means that the taster doesn’t believe this wine will improve with any additional bottle age, and will be most enjoyable when it still has its yo...

Each review carries the initials of the Wine Spectator editor who blind-tasted and scored the wine and wrote the review, based on the regional specializatio...