Wine Spectator is a lifestyle magazine that focuses on wine. Founded as a newsprint tabloid by Bob Morrisey
in 1976, it was purchased three years later by publisher Marvin
R. Shanken. In 2005, paid circulation was over 382,000 and the
magazine reached an estimated 2.25 million readers worldwide.
That year, its panel of experts blind tasted and reviewed over
12,400 wines. Each of the 16 issues per year contains a large
section devoted to wine reviews and wine ratings.
The magazine's consumer orientation is
reflected in stories such as family conflicts among producers,
the identification of producers whose wines suffered from systematic
cork
taint, and alerting collectors to the proliferation of counterfeit
wines. Among the critics in the magazine's tasting panel are James
Suckling, James Molesworth and James Laube.
The magazine organized and sponsored the
Wine Spectator Wine Tasting of 1986 on the tenth anniversary of
the Judgment of Paris.
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74 MORE
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76 SUNSET
77 SCHOLASTIC PARENT & CHILD
78 BOYS' LIFE
79 FAMILY HANDYMAN
80 LUCKY