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Wine Spectator
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Wine Spectator is a lifestyle magazine that focuses on wine that was founded as a newsprint tabloid by Bob Morrisey in 1976. Three years later it was purchased by Marvin R. Shanken, who is the publisher. In 2005, paid circulation was over 382,000 and the magazine reached an estimated 2.25 million readers worldwide.[citation needed] That year, its panel of experts blind tasted and reviewed over 12,400 wines. Each of the 16 issues per year contains a large section devoted to wine reviews and wine ratings.
The magazine's consumer orientation is reflected in stories such as describing family conflicts among producers, the identification of producers whose wines suffered from systematic cork taint, and alerting collectors to the proliferation of counterfeit wines.
The magazine organized and sponsored the Wine Spectator Wine Tasting of 1986 on the tenth anniversary of the Judgment of Paris.
- Special 30th anniversary issue of Wine Spectator, 2006 (April 30), 31(1).
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