Subscriptions to The Wine Advocate continued to grow and by 1998 had over 45,000 subscribers in 35 different countries.

To most wine enthusiasts, it was the vintage that made The Wine Advocate and its publisher.

The Wine Advocate's circulation now is 27,300, including about 3,000 overseas.

Every two months, in each issue of The Wine Advocate, he covers about 500 wines.

It is mostly a compilation of tasting notes from his newsletter, The Wine Advocate.

Only 15 other American wines have ever been scored so highly by The Wine Advocate, all from California.

He grades the wines on a schoolmasterish 100-point scale and publishes the results in The Wine Advocate.

He promised never to review any wines produced there in The Wine Advocate.

Today he is a full-time critic for The Wine Advocate.

In 1978, he began a newsletter that shortly evolved into The Wine Advocate.