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pinotphile
4 posts
Apr 12, 2007
1 year, 4 months ago
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1How to score wine
Assigning a wine a score you are prepared to defend is somewhat of a challenge for anyone and anything, especially for something as dynamic as wine & humans. I used to think in terms of a possible 10, and found 7.5, 8.3 etc. pretty much carried over - tho I too must confess to some occasional inflation...It is almost assumed (as WS does?) nothing much counts <80...
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John
50 posts
Apr 12, 2007
1 year, 4 months ago
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2Re: How to score wine
We've struggled w/ the low end of the scale. So much so that we pretty much merged a few scales and made our own ... with a few tweaks.
The major problem is that the scale is murky below 80 points. How many people can say a 75 point wine from a 78, or 73? With your level of wine education, you might be able to help us w/ questions like these ... but we certainly found ourselves in a quandary.
If anything, just for wine education, there should be tastings of known "not-so-good" wines that have been definitively rated by parker/ws et. al (if they exist) so people can understand the low end.
On a more practical note, we found problems when asking the wine rookies to rate wines with "standard" 100 point scales. They seem to consistently rate wines at about 72-77 .... and many of those wines had been professionally rated at 83'ish.
Ugh, in general, yet another rant at the 100 point scale. We had internal debate about using the 100 point scale at all ... most of our competitors do 1-5 stars or similar. I felt that regardless of our own personal feelings, the wine industry has already decided that question ... and it settled on the 100 point system. Whether we liked it or not became irrelevant .... in my mind :)
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sweetnsour
1 post
Apr 16, 2007
1 year, 4 months ago
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3Re: How to score wine
ohhhhh...now I understsand what you were trying to tell me on saturday John...LoL... :)
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John
50 posts
Apr 17, 2007
1 year, 4 months ago
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4Re: How to score wine
Don't worry S&S ... i subtracted 4 points (if i remember right) off every review that you did and it lined up perfectly.
But I did enjoy the explanation u scribbled at the bottom of your new & improved scoring system :)
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