98 Chat. St. Jean SB, La Petite Etoile, Foul or Fabulous?

[Thomas]

As you must know, Randy, the real world is not a wine world, at least in the USA....

I believe that most of us referred to wines that are overdone, beat up, wooded and malo-ed to death. There are an awful lot of them out there. And you are correct, most people do not read about wine, they simply glance at the score next to wine on the shelf or on the wine list--the score that often rates high for many bottles of large, powerful airplane fuel with vanilla overtones.