11.   One that specializes in California wine, offering tasting notes and recommended reading about wine and more is www.winepros.com.

12.   Tasting notes were compared.

13.   Tasting notes, for example, can be hilarious.

14.   Tasting notes follow, including, discreetly, a few wines under the Bastianich label.

15.   Tasting notes are the backbone of wine reporting, but even at their best they are intensely subjective and highly ephemeral.

16.   Those were my tasting notes, though.