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Too many adventuresome wine consumers step up to their retail shelves or make decisions from a wine list with this approach, "Well, I haven't heard anything bad about this wine". For all the writers who feel too timid or too elite to write about bad wines, we feel we would let down the audience we strived to obtain and abandon them in the only time of need they might choose to listen to our advice.

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