No Substitute for Experience When Judging Wines

By James Laube
Posted: Friday, March 23, 2007

Being comfortable grading or rating wines takes time and experience. It took me years of tasting before I felt fully confident about assessing wines and describing them, and even now, I come across wines.....

		Access to ratings and tasting notes for more than 205,000 wines

		Our Insider & Advance newsletters, loaded with wine ratings you need to know about

		Web exclusive articles, tasting reports and our interactive Editors' Blog

		Access to our newly redesigned hotel search and winery search databases

		Access to all current offers on Spectator's Trading Post