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Personal Post – What’s the Point of Wineing?

   I don’t know anyone who doesn’t enjoy a nice glass of wine everyday now and then.  wine3

So have you ever wondered how wine is rated and how they (whoever “they” are) set the criteria for arriving at a certain number to determine how good a bottle is?

 There are basically three respected wine point rating systems:

1)  Wine Spectator – a lifestyle wine magazine whose editors review more than 15,000 wines each year in blind tastings held at their offices in Napa, New York and in the vineyards of Europe.  So how do I get a job? I like both wine and traveling & don’t even mind being blindfolded sometimes. 

85 – 89 very good, a wine with special qualities

90 – 94 outstanding, a wine of superior character and style

95 – 100 classic, a great winewine2

2) Wine Advocate – a bimonthly wine publication that features consumer advice and ratings from wine critic Robert M. Parker Jr. and other reviewers from specific wine regions around the world.

80 – 89 an above average to very good wine displaying various degrees of finesse and flavour as well as character with no noticeable flaws.

90 – 95 an outstanding wine of exceptional complexity and character.  In short these are terrific wines.

95 – 100 an extraordinary wine of profound and complex character displaying all the attributes expected of a classic wine of its variety.

oron swift3) Wine Enthusiast – a lifestyle wine magazine whose ratings are based on tastings by the magazines editors and other qualified panelists from around the world.

87 – 89  Very Good

90 – 93 Excellent

94 – 97 Superb

98 – 100 Classic

I’m thinking of starting my own club called “The Enthusiastic Wine Aficionados“.  A lifestyle club, whose ratings will be based on tastings from me and a select group of complex characters friends with serious drinking problems expertise.  We’ll drink to anything so we’re already way ahead of the game – just haven’t figured out our point system yet.  It will probably go something like this:

80 – 85 that’s not bad

86 – 95 pretty darn good

96 – 99 doesn’t get much better

100 – it got better

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