Highest Rated Wines At The Market!

Wine critics. You gotta love em - or not!
The 100 point wine rating scale used by most of the industry's wine critics is a major motivator for many wine buyers. Sometimes that's good, and drives business for the retailer. And sometimes it makes us crazy, because there are many great wines that don't get rated. Many very good value wines get 87-89 points, but are ignored because they do not get the coveted "90 points or higher".  And sometimes, we just don't agree with the critics ratings. But we get caught up in the very highest ratings like everyone else does. So, just for fun, here's a list of the highest rated wines at the Market, and, in most cases, their equally high prices. All ratings are from Robert Parker's The Wine Advocate.
The 97 Pointers
2008 Achaval Ferrer Consulta - $115
2006 Sandrone Cannubi Barolo - $300 (this is a magnum size equal to 2 regular size bottles)


The 98 Pointers
2007 Catena Zapata Nicolas Cabernet - $115
2007 Dominus - $140
2008 Peter Michael "Les Pavots" - $172

The 99 Pointers
2008 Royal City Syrah - $145
2008 Dominus - $160

Our 100 Pointer
2007 Verite "Le Desir" - $275


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