Why Wine Spectator annoys me

[joeyz6]

Hey all, long time no post. Hope things are well with all of you. I'm been crazy busy, working as one of the sommeliers at Alinea Restaurant in Chicago. Would love to see any of you if you're in town.

Anyway, I wanted to take a moment to jump back on here today, because I just picked up a copy of Wine Spectator to read about the 2002 Cabs. Having worked out there last year, I've developed somewhat of an interest in those wines. So I was looking in the back at the retrospective 1995 tasting, and I was shocked to see that Laube gave the 95 Mayacamas a *#@&$^% 75 points! Come on now ... the 95 Mayacamas was one of my absolute favorite wines I tasted last year. One of Bob's best vintages since the 1970s, and one of the most beautifully balanced wines I have tasted from California. Laube's palate is so one-dimensional -- the bigger, the better. He doesn't seem to have any appreciation for medium-bodied wines.