The more new wines I tried, the more I wanted to read about them, find out how they were made, where they came from and what to look for in the new ones to try. A few years ago I bought a copy of the “Wine Spectator” and was immediately taken in by it. There was so much information for a novice like me that I was able to finally slice, dice and analyze it for hours on end. I was particularly “smitten” by the 100 point wine rating scale. I soon found that almost all the rated wines were not available in the local grocery stores where I had been buying my wine. I figured most of them to be out of reach and not available in our area being from California, Washington and Oregon and were simply out of the question for me to buy and try.