Like all wine reviews, it's an opinion at best. I try to report on what I taste, not what marketing has to say about a wine and I've read some really great marketing prose. Maybe I should change my handle to joe.wino. And I always urge readers to taste a wine beforehand and NOT rely on my review or any review for that matter as the be all and end all of a wine. Silenus and I have tried wines with 90+ points we've not agreed with, but again, that's our thoughts on it. More importantly, what do you think? In the end, that's what matters. At best, we might be a guide to a great wine.