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Why Not Review Bad Wines?

Let's be honest and fair.

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Fredric Koeppel
Dec 11, 2025
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Last week I received an email notice of a new issue of Fred Minnick’s newsletter about brown spirits. Few people in America know more about whisky and whiskey than Fred does. (I call him Fred because we were on a trip to Bordeaux in 2011, so we’re on a first-name basis. I believe.) The subject line for the email was “Worst Whiskeys of the Year.”

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