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90pluswines gathers all ratings from professional wine raters worldwide.
For each wine we calculate an average score.
This score is called the Universal Wine Score (UWS).
Since the Universal Wine Score (UWS) is the average score of all scores of all professional wine critics
we can say the Universal Wine Score (UWS) is an independant standard for quality of a wine.
Whenever the Universal Wine Score (UWS) is 90 or higher it can be considered a wine of outstanding quality.
'Outstanding' means the wine meets the highest standard of quality achievable for the grapes it used, in the region it has been made in , and the vintage it is from.
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Wine Advocate
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  The Wine Advocate,® "The Independent Consumer's
Bimonthly Guide to Fine Wine", is published by Robert M. Parker, Jr. Each issue
consists of around 48 pages of wine tasting notes and includes no advertising.
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Wine Spectator
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 The Wine Spectator provides wine lovers with in-depth articles
on fine wine, dining, travel, as well as extensive reviews on specific new releases.
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International Wine Cellar
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 The IWC provides extensive coverage of the world of fine wine.
This critically acclaimed, independent, bimonthly publication is read by wine lovers
in 28 countries. Every issue includes in-depth articles and interviews, plus tasting
notes on over 500 wines.
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The Vine
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 Clive Coates MW (Master of Wine) is one
of the world's leading wine authorities. Coates has published The Vine, his independent
fine wine magazine, since 1985.
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Burghound
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 The Burghound.com is the result of a lifelong passion for the
wine of Burgundy. For more than 25 years, Allen Meadows has been collecting the
wines and visiting the region. In the year 2005 alone, he spent more than three
months visiting, researching, tasting, exploring and evaluating. Burgundy is his
obsession really.
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Decanter Magazine
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 Decanter Magazine is the UK’s leading wine publication. the
annual Decanter World Wine Awards, is one of the world’s most respected and influential
wine competitions with a rigorous judging process.
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Wine & Spirits
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 Wine & Spirits is an American wine magazine. With offices in
New York and San Francisco, the magazine publishes eight issues annually.
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Gambero Rosso
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 Gambero Rosso is an Italian food and wine magazine and publishing group founded
in 1986.
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Australian Wine Annual
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 The online version of the best-selling The Australian Wine
Annual takes away the uncertainty of choosing which Australian wine to buy and when
to drink it.
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Wine Enthusiast Magazine
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 In 1988 Wine Enthusiast Magazine was founded, bringing consumers
vital information on the world of wine and hundreds of wine reviews in every issue.
The magazine has grown to become the world’s largest periodical devoted exclusively
to wine and spirits.
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La Revue du vin de France
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 La Revue du vin de France is a French magazine on wine published
monthly. The publication has been described by Jancis Robinson as "France's only
serious wine magazine"
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Bettane et Desseauve
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 Following the acquisition of La Revue du
vin de France by Marie-Claire and media group Lagardère, Michel Bettane and his
colleague Thierry Desseauve left the publication on grounds of editorial differences,
and the two launched their own series of wine guides, Le Classement des Meilleurs
Vins de France.
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We use the scores of a number of famous wine writers. If you want to know more about
the persons behind these scores and how to get into contact with them, just click
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Robert Parker - Wine Advocate (WA)
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 Robert Parker is recognized as the single
most influential writer in the wine industry, Robert Parker publishes his own journal:the Wine Advocate. This publication appears six times a year and provides
reviews and information on wines from all over the world.
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Antonio Galloni - Wine Advocate (WA)
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 With parents who retailed Italian wines
and a grandfather who loved the great wines of Bordeaux and the Rhône, Antonio's
exposure to wine started at an early age. He was reading avidly about the world's
major winemaking regions as a teenager and wrote his first articles on the wines
of France for a high-school French class.
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Neal Martin - Wine Advocate (WA)
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 "Given my vocation as a “wine writer”,
one might expect me to recall sepia-tinged memories in the family library, when
my aristocratic father, an epicurean and wine connoisseur, offered his eldest son
a sip of Yquem or Latour one fateful evening."
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Jay Miller - Wine Advocate (WA)
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 Dr. Jay Stuart Miller was a Clinical Psychologist
specializing in child, adolescent and family therapy on a full time basis from 1973-1998
and a part time basis from 1998-2001. He received his B.A. degree from the University
of California in Los Angles in 1967 and his M.S. and Ph. D. degrees from the University
of Maryland at College Park in 1970 and 1972.
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David Schildknecht - Wine Advocate (WA)
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 After a brief stint in academe and several
years in the restaurant business, David Schildknecht logged more than a decade as
a wine retailer in Washington, DC. with the late Rex Wine & Spirits (from 1982),
with Mayflower Wine and Spirits, and lastly with Pearson’s.
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Mark Squires - Wine Advocate (WA)
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 Mark Squires was a lawyer in Philadelphia,
class of '78, although he does not practice much any more. He began traveling extensively
in France in 1981. At the time, the only wines he drank were things like Bolla Soave
and Mouton Cadet, which he thought was the good stuff.
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Kevin Zraly - Wine Advocate (WA)
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 Kevin Zraly is arguably the best known
wine educator on earth. He was wine director for the Windows on the World restaurant
atop New York's World Trade Center from 1976 until its destruction on September
11th, 2001.
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Pierre Rovani - The Wine Advocate (WA)
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 Robert M. Parker, Jr., widely considered
to be the most powerful critic in the world, asked Pierre Rovani to join him in
1996. Since then, Mr. Rovani has been responsible for the tasting and criticism
of more than half of the world's wine producing regions.
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Lisa Perotti-Brown MW - The Wine Advocate (WA)
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 Lisa was born and raised in rural Maine,
USA. She attended Colby College in Maine and after graduating with a degree in English
Literature in 1989, moved to London, England with designs on becoming a playwright.
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Harvey Steiman - Wine Spectator (WS)
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 Harvey Steiman, 52, tastes and reports
on a wide variety of wine types, but his primary areas of responsibility as a critic
are Australia and the Pacific Northwest. Steiman joined Wine Spectator in 1984,
after serving as food and wine editor of the San Francisco Examiner.
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James Laube - Wine Spectator (WS)
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 James Laube, 48, is Wine Spectator's senior
expert on the major wine types of California. He has been writing for the magazine
since 1980, and joined the staff full-time in 1983.
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James Suckling - Wine Spectator (WS)
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 James Suckling, 41, joined Wine Spectator in 1981, when it
was based in San Diego. He moved with the magazine to San Francisco in 1982, and
in 1985 was reassigned to Europe. He lived in Paris for two years and then moved
to London, where he resided for 11 years. He now lives in Tuscany, Italy.
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Per-Henrik Mansson - Wine Spectator (WS)
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Per-Henrik Mansson, 49, is Wine Spectator's leading critic on
Burgundy and also does regular tasting and reporting on the Rhone. He does news
and investigative reporting throughout Europe. Mansson joined Wine Spectator in
1987 in San Francisco, and has been based in Europe since 1989, first in London,
now in Switzerland.
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Thomas Matthews - Wine Spectator (WS)
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 Thomas Matthews, 46, has been writing for Wine
Spectator since 1987, when he was a freelancer living in Bordeaux. Hired full-time
in 1988, Matthews served first in the London office, then was reassigned to New
York.
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Kim Marcus - Wine Spectator (WS)
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 Kim Marcus, 40, joined the Wine Spectator staff
in 1988 in San Francisco and was reassigned to New York in 1993. He has been a regular
taster since 1990. He also authors regular tasting reports on great-value wines.
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Bruce Sanderson - Wine Spectator (WS)
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 Bruce Sanderson, 43, joined Wine Spectator in 1993
after working for the previous five years as a wine steward and in retail wine sales.
He oversees the tasting operations in New York, San Francisco and Europe.
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James Molesworth - Wine Spectator (WS)
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 James Molesworth joined Wine Spectator in 1997,
after working five years in retail wine sales and as a sommelier. He has been a
regular taster since 2000.
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Stephen Tanzer - International Wine Cellar (WC)
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 Stephen Tanzer is editor and publisher of the critically
acclaimed bimonthly International Wine Cellar.
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Clive Coates - The Vine (TV)
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 Clive Coates MW (Master of Wine) is one of the
world's leading wine authorities. Coates has published The Vine, his independent
fine wine magazine, since 1985.
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Jean-Marc Quarin (QUA)
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 Jean-Marc Quarin was born in 1955 in the Châteauneuf
du pape appellation. His grandparents were winegrowers, in Italy on his father's
side and in the Languedoc-Roussillon region on his mother's side.
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Allen Meadows - Burghound (BH)
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 Clive Allen Meadows was a finance executive for
25 years, holding a variety of positions, including stints as the senior vice-president
and director of corporate development for Great Western Financial and chief financial
officer for Fidelity National.
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Jancis Robinson (JR)
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 Jancis Mary Robinson OBE, MW born in Cumbria
on April 22, 1950 is a British wine critic, journalist and editor of wine literature.
She currently writes a weekly column for the Financial Times, and writes for her
website www.jancisrobinson.com.
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James Halliday - Australian Wine Companion (AWC)
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 Respected wine critic and vigneron James
Halliday has a career that spans over 40 years, but he is most widely known for
his witty and informative writing about wine.
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James Lawther MW - Decanter Magazine
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 James has spent the last 20 years in France,
moving steadily up the ladder in the world of wine, awarded the coveted Master of
Wine diploma in 1993 and currently contributing editor for England's leading wine
magazine, Decanter.
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Joshua Greene - Wine & Spirits
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 Editor and Publisher of Wine & Spirits since
1986, Joshua Greene began drinking wine with meals during a summer in Galicia, Spain,
at the age of 13.
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Tara Q. Thomas - Wine & Spirits
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 Since Tara Q. Thomas joined Wine & Spirits
in 1997, she's traveled the wine world from Argentina to Australia, Austria, France,
Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy and North America.
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Patrick Comiskey - Wine & Spirits
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 A former sommelier, Patrick J. Comiskey
serves as the W&S critic for all domestic wines outside of California–including
New York, Oregon and Washington–and contributes articles on the wines and
viticulture of these areas.
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Peter Liem - Wine & Spirits
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 Peter Liem developed an interest in wine
while backpacking in Europe as a teenager. In his years as a wine professional,
Liem has worked in nearly all aspects of the industry.
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Patricio Tapia - Wine & Spirits
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 After graduating with a degree in journalism
from the Universidad de Chile in Santiago, Patricio Tapia attended Bordeaux University
in France, where he studied for a diploma in wine tasting and winemaking.
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Jeremy Oliver - Australian Wine Annual
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 Jeremy Oliver (born December 29, 1961) is
an Australian wine writer, commentator, educator and presenter. Self-published with
over 25 years experience, Oliver is the author of the wine guide The Australian
Wine Annual (first published 1997).
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Susan Kostrzewa - Wine Enthusiast Magazine
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 Executive Editor Susan Kostrzewa joined
Wine Enthusiast in 2006, when she moved from Sonoma, California, to Manhattan. Kostrzewa
has written and edited wine, food and travel stories for the past 12 years, and
in addition to editing Wine Enthusiast Magazine and WineMag.com, currently
reviews wines from Greece and Cyprus.
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Tim Moriarty - Wine Enthusiast Magazine
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 Tim Moriarty has been managing editor ofWine Enthusiast Magazine for six years. A 25-year publishing industry veteran,
Tim has been managing editor and/or founding editor of a number of publications,
including Chocolatier, Pastry Art & Design and Videogaming Illustrated.
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Joe Czerwinski - Wine Enthusiast Magazine
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Tasting Director and Senior Editor Joe Czerwinski joined Wine Enthusiast Magazine
in 1999 as an associate editor. In addition to managing the entire tasting and review
program, he reviews wines from France, Germany, Australia and New Zealand.
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Roger Voss - Wine Enthusiast Magazine
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European Editor Roger Voss is a wine and food author, and a journalist. The veteran
has been writing about wine and food for the past 25 years. His books include France:
A Feast of Food and Wine; The Wines of the Loire; Pocket Guide to the Wines of the
Loire, Alsace and the Rhône; and Fortified Wines. He is based in
Bordeaux, France, and reviews the wines of Austria, France and Portugal.
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Bettane et Desseauve
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Following the acquisition of La Revue du
vin de France by Marie-Claire and media group Lagardère, Michel Bettane and his
colleague Thierry Desseauve left the publication on grounds of editorial differences,
and the two launched their own series of wine guides, Le Classement des Meilleurs
Vins de France.
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