WS Wines of the Year - Looking for chart for 10+ years

It's all in the question. Putting "wine spectator" and "wine of the year", along with 1990, 1994, 1999, 2000 yielded:

Dale "George Boole" Williams :)

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OK, it's back to Boolean 101 for me. With about 12,000 "hits," the majority of them were for things like, "Best Red Wine Under $10... " etc. and I only got a few actual "Wine of the Year" ratings.

Thanks for the link. That is exactly what I was looking for. Now, I have to raid the cellar, and see how many examples (different vintages) I have for the auction lot.

Hunt

1988-Ch. Lynch Bages 1985 1989-Caymus SS 1984 1990-Beringer PR 1986 1991-Ch Beaucastel CNP 1989 1992-Ch.Pichon-Longueville-Baron 1989 1993 Ch Latour 1990 1994 Caymus SS 1990 1995-Penfolds Grange 1990 1996-Beringer PR 1994 1997-Fonseca/Taylor Fladgate VP 1994 (co-winners) 1998-CH Ducru-Beaucaillou 1995 1999-Ch. St Jean Cinq Cepages 1996 2000-Antinori Soliaia 1997 2001-Ornellaia 1998 2002-Guigel CNP 1999 2003-Palmoa Spring Mountain Merlot 2001 2004-CH Rieussec Sauternes 2001 2005-Phelps INsignia 2002 2006 Casanova di Neri Brnello Tenuta Nuova 2001

Did you put "Wine of the year" in quotation marks when you used Google?

"Wine charts!? We ain't got no wine charts. We don't need no wine charts! I don't have to show you any stinking wine charts!!"

I didn't google it. I went to The Wine Spectator website and did a search for "WIne of the Year" they direct you to a page that lists all of the years from 1988 on.

Well, there could be OTHER sources for "Wine of the year".

Yes, but those WS lists may appear elsewhere, my friend!

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leaves a lot to

You don't understand that it may actually be easier to find them with Google? They may have been deleted from WS but still listed somewhere else.

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Actually, I started at the WS site, but got more viable info from Google, until you and DaleW came through. This is exactly what I needed.

Question: do you have a WS site account? I have a subscription to mag, but did not renew my Web site account after the first year that it was up. About all that I ever used was their restaurant ratings. Maybe I just didn't use the right search criteria.

As for the Google search, yes, I used the phrase "Wine of the Year," as you see it. However, much of what was returned was marketing hype about wines that have never made WOTY from WS. I also set Wine Spectator as a must "include," and a ton of pages didn't have any reference to WS, that I could find - curious.

Anyway, thanks for the info, as it is exactly what I need. Now I only have to see how many of these wines I have handy for the lot.

Appreciated, Hunt

Probably a bit too late to jump in here, but I have found that using Google is often better than using a website's provided search engine. To limit it to just that site, you would do something like:

["top 100" site:winespectator.com]

without the brackets. This will limit Google to only those pages hosted by the site in which you are interested. Of course, if they have restricted areas, Google maynot be able to index them. But oftentimes, I have found that it does. Somehow.

K

Thanks for the insight. I had not considered that criterion in Search. I'll experiment with it, and see if it narrows down the hits.

Thanks, Hunt

I made the point that WS itself may not be the best place to search, for various reasons.

Bill, your blood pressure is rising. Actually mine is rising just listening to the conversation. Not that it takes much to send it up.

Relax, and lets have a drink. We can compare notes afterwards.

-E

Not necessarily.