Frequent wine buyers may notice that when buying wine, there are always ratings and wine reviews in the product description, even including a description of the drinkability period. These ratings are from professional magazines or wine critics. However, some professional tasters may recommend the former between a wine with 85 points and a wine with 90 points. Consumers may be confused. Ratings can be used as a reference for buying wine, but before you refer to them, you should have a better understanding of the ratings.
Most wine critics and professional magazines use a 100-point scoring system. A wine, as long as it’s a wine, has a base score of 50 points. Wine scoring is an assessment of 4 aspects of a wine: appearance (color), aroma, taste (texture and structure), and overall impression score. Therefore, whichever aspect of a wine rating is actually a subjective judgment of the rater. Although the scores of some famous critics can be relatively reliable, in general, famous critics have their own regions of expertise, and scores for wines from other regions may be relatively less reliable. For example, Parker’s high scores are always given to fruity, high alcohol, very serious wines. In addition, wine critics already know basic information about a wine before they taste it, although sometimes they taste some wines blind and don’t know the information about the wine producer before they give a score. Often, different critics will go head to head, but they are not competing in the realm of classic wines like the Bordeaux Grand Cru. If a critic gives an Albarino an 87, it means that he is not comparing it to his past experience, but to other critics who have reviewed the wine. With these variables, the 100-point scale cannot be used as an absolute reference. If you want to use a critic’s rating as a reference, take your time, choose critics with similar preferences and choose wines based on their recommendations. Of course, just because a wine has not been tasted by a wine critic, or a wine is not given a rating on the supermarket shelf, does not mean that the wine is of poor quality. Some wines don’t participate in ratings, and some retailers don’t get information on how wines are rated, so it’s a good time to go online and check out the information on the wines. As for the easiest way to understand the 100-point scale, Wine Spector’s professional sommeliers give this description:Wines with scores below 80 are usually flawed; wines with scores of 80-84 mean “not bad, if anything, I’d drink it, but wouldn’t go looking for it specifically.” A wine with 85-89 points means “Well, this is really good!” A 90-94 point wine means “It’s good quality, I’d like to learn more about this wine.” The 95-100 point wines need to be described as “classic,” representing the style of the type, the model of the type of wine, the wine that will be remembered for years to come.
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