Do wine scores matter?

I got several nice scores this year. It was an arduous process getting my scores and felt deeply personal to me. I wrote about it my newest blog post if you’d like a candid take on what goes into actually getting a wine scored. My quest included barging into someone’s yard and an embarrasing interlude with the head of Wine Spectator. The full list of scores are at the bottom of the post. Spoiler, they are all over 90.

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Kira Ballotta
No Wine is Natural

This is the story of grapes, yeast and winemaking tools. Where would grapes prefer to live? Is native yeast important? Are wine additives anyting to worry about? I dive a bit into it all here.

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Kira Ballotta