If they love you, you're golden. If they don't, you're dead. I can report that they are both very professional and both very nice people. I mention this only because I have heard so many harsh opinions expressed about them and their newsletter, often by people who had not actually met them. It seems only fair to help redress the balance.
Blind tasting is the only way to remove preconceptions about a wine.
I realize that it is impossible for them to taste as many wines a year as they do on a blind basis. But it is still a pity that they do not taste blind. As readers of this website know, and as Lenz customers know, in blind tastings we have frequently equalled or beaten wines from California and France that have received Wine Advocate scores in the 90s. Wines like Chateau Latour, Chateau P trus, Duckhorn, Chalone and so on. Still, it is nice to receive the recognition of being reviewed at all.