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I belive that is 3 examples.... Look, accoriding to many many people, Laube has lost his touch. What do you want me or anyone to say? This is a commonly agreed upon point on the WineSpectator forums, themselves. Who knows why this...

Are there any publications out there with good wine information aside from Wine Spectator? I have subscribed to it for years but I find that it often focuses on wines that I will not likely ever be able to afford. Same with...

The current issue of WINE SPECTATOR features an article by John Mariani on three restaurants titled London’s “New Opulence”. We visited two this past spring, The Greenhouse and The Square, both in the Mayfair...

I am spending a couple of days in Napa before Thanksgiving and was thinking about having dinner at Greystone. But, I have found no mention of it on this board and few reviews (none current) on the web. Is this restaurant a dud?

Wine Spectator and Robert Parker are two different entities. Parker’s rag is the Wine Advocate.

Fake restaurant busts Spectator awards http://community.winepressnw.com/node/953 From that site: The wine blogosphere has lit up today with the story about someone who created a fake restaurant in Italy, complete with a fake Web...

As you probably already know, the Wine Spectator magazine just released their "Top 10 wines of 2008" this past week. Answer me this because I find it rather amusing...How come a wine sounds so much more enticing when it pops up...

Last night my fiance took me to dinner at a local steakhouse, not a chain, that we had never tried. When we sat down I asked for a wine list, as the place has displayed prominently in the foyer two Wine Spectator Awards of...

A few years ago we went to Tan Dinh in Paris based on a Wine Spectator rec. "fine wine" “fine Vietnamese food” We weren’t allowed to order from the mimeographed creased, stained and ancient wine list. The latest...

The June 15 edition hypes their "Insiders Guide To The Best". The usual candisates that any reader of Gourmet or Michael Bauer would recognize.Slanted Door, Gary Danko, Zuni Cafe, etc MIA? Hawthorne Lane. New this year? Merenda...

This month’s Wine Spectator has a nice appreciation of Julia Child and encomia to her by various disciples and luminaries including Thomas Keller. Worth reading.

There’s a recipe for Chestnut and chicken-apple sausage stuffing in the new issue, but it can only be accessed by subscribers, so I can’t get to it online. Does anyone have it? Thanks!

I just confirmed my attendance at the Wine Spectator Grand Tour event in Las Vegas on May 4th-5th, and was wondering if anyone’s been to one of these before. The list of wineries/chateaux is tremendous, and I’m...