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A fill-in feature from GOSH Wine News Services..
On this day in 1927, the LCBO was founded on a bed of limestone, to encourage local grape production. But it was such a cash cow that the government abandoned its wine roots and ploughed the beer and spirit dollars into a make-work bureaucracy during the Great Depression.
On this day in 1999, the first animal-critter label was created. Significantly, it was a snake-in-the-grass and its contents were reviewed by prominent members of the Canadian Wine Hacks and Flacks Association as tasting like snake oil.
On this day in 1978, the first 100-point scale was used by Robert Parker, Jr. It was immediately stolen by many (but not all) publications around the world, although it was criticized as "inept" by those inept publications which had postponed their usage of points until later, jumping on the bandwagon after the horse had left the stable. For his efforts, Parker rates a 92, but he is maturing and in decline.
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