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Wine Spectator Magazine

Wine Spectator is a lifestyle magazine that focuses on wine and wine culture. It publishes 15 issues per year with content that includes news, articles, profiles, and general entertainment pieces.[2] Each issue also includes from 400 to more than 1,000 wine reviews, which consist of wine ratings and tasting otes.3]Among the critics in the magazine's tasting panel are James Molesworth, Kim Marcus, Bruce Sanderson, Harvey Steiman, James Laube and from 1981 to 2010, James Suckling.[4][5] Like most other major wine lications, the magazine rates wine on a 50-100 scale.[6] Thomas Matthews is the executive itor.Founded as a San Diego-based tabloid newspaper by Bob Morrisey in 1976, Wine Spectator was purchased three years later by current publisher and editor Marvin R. Shanken.[7] That year, its panel of experts blind tasted and iewed over 12,400 wines[citation needed].In 1981 the magazine introduced its Restaurant Awards gram, which ws restaurant wine lists on three levels: the Award of Excellence (basic), Best of Award of Excellence nd-er), and the Grand Award (highest). As of 2009 over 3,500 restaurants held one of these rds.8]The agazine ized and sponsored the Wine Spectator Wine Tasting of 1986 on the tenth nniversary of the "Judgment of Paris.