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Publisher: Pro Circ
Category: Magazine

List Price: ~~$69.30~~
Buy New: $29.95
You Save: $39.35 (57%)

Avg. Customer Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars

6 reviews
Sales Rank: 352

Format: Magazine Subscription
Type: Consumer magazine
Subscription Issues: 14
Subscription Length: 12 Months
Issues Per Year: 14
First Issue Lead Time: 6-10 Weeks

ASIN: B00005N7TK

Release Date: November 23, 2001
Availability: Usually ships in 1 to 3 months

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Editorial Reviews:

Product Description
WINE ENTHUSIAST is a wine and spirits magazine covering domestic and world wine regions, wine and spirits news, tasting notes, cellaring and serving suggestions, the interaction of wine and spirits with food and travel. Every issue contains a Buying Guide rating selected styles of wine and new releases, reporting the opinions of our judges. The focus of the magazine is on the appreciation of wine as part of good living.

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5 out of 5 stars

My Favorite Wine Publication December 3, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

I happen to work in the wine industry and this is my favorite go to when I want an update or just as a casual read. It's interesting, well written, and not as snobby as some of the others. I find this to be far superior in content and approachability to those that I've read regularly in the past. Their catalog is fantastic as well and I always have a great experience with them.

I definitely recommend this publication!

3 out of 5 stars

good for the price April 19, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful

I have a subscription to Wine Enthusiast. I managed to find a one year subscription (14 issues) for 6 bucks! Given how little I pay for it, it is educational and has a extensive buying guide at the end of every issue. While I enjoy the Wine Spectator, it is much more expensive (50 bucks for a year's subscription) and I couldn't justify paying that much since it is only slightly better.

2 out of 5 stars

mediocre magazine, Co. has horrible customer service December 22, 2006
3 out of 10 found this review helpful

Original Review:
I am extremely disappointed with The Wine Enthusiast. Although their magazine is ok, their products are overpriced, and their customer service is horrendous. I never actually got through to a customer service rep, and was on hold for 50 minutes at one point before I hung up. Below is a paragraph from a letter I sent them regarding their latest debacle with me:
"On December 10 I ordered a special gift for my husband, expecting it to take some extra time to be delivered since I chose to ship it by UPS ground. When December 18 rolled around and I had not yet received an email notifying me of the status of my order, I checked it online. It still had not been shipped. I immediately emailed customer service stating my concern. I received the automated response email assuring me that I would receive a reply to my email within 24 hours. Well, two days later I had still had not heard anything. So, I checked my account again to see what was going on. Apparently, my package had been shipped on December 18. I followed the tracking number to see the shipping status, and, apparently, UPS had not received any account information until December 18.

Coincidence? I think not."
I am not going to renew my subscription or deal with this company and its associates anymore. If you have respect for the consumer, you'll do the same.

Update:
The Senior Director of Operations called me and apologized profusely for my maltreatment. They are handling the incompetence of their Customer Service reps, and have reordered my product free of charge (and are sending it by FedEx, since I am boycotting UPS). So, I'll give them one more point.

3 out of 5 stars

Affordable & adequate --- better as an introductory source than anything else July 11, 2006
7 out of 7 found this review helpful

As the other reviewers have observed, this is definitely not a magazine for the serious collector, if for no other reason than the quantity of wines being reviewed is relatively small, and without good comparison to other vintages among other things. The articles are nice enough, but without much depth. Most aspects of this magazine would tend appeal more to the neophyte, which is fair enough. It helps that it is relatively inexpensive.

For those who are just getting their feet wet, one should note that the editorial slant tends towards wines with a more acidic presence (as opposed to the fruit bombs favored by Parker). This might make one assume that the Wine Enthusiast staff falls squarely in line with the wine establishment in the UK, but while reading the reviews, it is apparent from the occasional shot at British critics that the editors hew their own line in this regard. Mostly it becomes a question of whether or not you, as a wine drinker, are an acidhound or instead prefer a fruit-dominated wine.

3 out of 5 stars

Okay for the price, but could use some improvements February 16, 2005
20 out of 21 found this review helpful

Wine Enthusiast is an average, decently priced, magazine about, of all things, wine. Less of a lifestyle magazine than Wine Spectator, and less serious in tone than Wine Advocate, Wine Enthusiast has its merit in that it focuses solidly on wine without the pretentious rambling that sometimes diminishes its competitors. Most of its articles are mostly accurate, if in a rudimentary way. Wine Enthusiast does not seem to rate as many wines as its competitors, which can be a problem for vertical comparisons of certain wines, including some well-known examples from Bordeaux and Burgundy. As such, I would probably not recommend Wine Enthusiast to the serious collector. Nonetheless, for its price, Wine Enthusiast offers value and adequate ratings and reviews of many wines, although I have some questions as to how they choose which wines to rate when they leave out many Sauternes in favor of white zinfandels.

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