Comments on: Points for all? Recent evidence of wine score inflation

By: Points and wines otherwise unknown | Enotourist

Points and wines otherwise unknown | Enotourist — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 19:53:25 +0000

[...] Mike’s Steinberger’s Wine Diarist has quickly become one of my favorite wine pundits in the fray. His professional background as a former writer for Slate comes through time and again as he crafts wonderfully insightful and well-thought articles. One that I felt was worth sharing was from yesterday called Quiz Time wherein he talks about the recent points scoring in Napa by “Proxy-Parker”, Antonio Galloni. Everyone is in a bit of a flutter over the fact that the scores seem to have been inflated which Dr. Vino talks about. [...]

By: Dirk Niepoort: 100-point score will “destroy” work | Dr Vino's wine blog

Thu, 09 Aug 2012 12:57:51 +0000

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By: The 100 point phenomenon and score inflation | STEVE HEIMOFF| WINE BLOG

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 07:12:17 +0000

[...] aspect of being troubling also accompanies wine score inflation. Dr. Vino touched on it the other day, and while he didn’t exactly condemn it, he did kind of cast a mild aspersion on [...]

By: Robert Parker's 100-point wines from Bordeaux 2009--all 16 of them | Dr Vino's wine blog

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 14:09:56 +0000

[...] all, 20 wines had received scores as possible 100 pointers based on barrel tastings. In January, I suggested that rampant score inflation posed the biggest threat to the use of scores and eighteen 100s do not reverse my view. What’s your [...]

By: 100-stopniowa skala oceny wina |

100-stopniowa skala oceny wina | — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 15:54:34 +0000

[...] punktów…” . Wysoki zakres skali miał zapewnić dokładną ocenę wszystkich elementów wina. Niestety obecnie inflacja wyniku jest jednym z najczęstszym zagrożeniem przy użyciu 100-punktowego systemu [...]

By: 100 punktowa skala oceny wina | Wine |

100 punktowa skala oceny wina | Wine | — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 11:37:31 +0000

By: Who invented wine’s 100-point scale? | Dr Vino's wine blog

Who invented wine’s 100-point scale? | Dr Vino's wine blog — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 20:36:39 +0000

[...] less likely to result in the inflated wine ratings they saw all around them.” Ironically, score inflation is the most likely threat to the 100-point system [...]

By: Alastair

Alastair — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:11:13 +0000

Parker has devalued himself. Steven Tanzer has not yet given anyone 100 points, but Parker and Wine Spectator have done so on a number of occasions. I much prefer the writings of Tanzer, Broadbent, Johnson, Robinson, Jeffords, Feiring, and others.

By: Alastair

Alastair — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 23:57:22 +0000

Having read all of the comments, I am awarding you 92 points.

By: Research-Grade Wine Evaluation « notes from the winemaker

Research-Grade Wine Evaluation « notes from the winemaker — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 04:09:30 +0000

[...] I type this, over on Twitter, Dr. Vino, Steve!, and lord knows where else, folks are rehashing—with considerable [...]

By: Daniel Posner

Daniel Posner — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:10:04 +0000

I like this comparison, same critic…

The 2009 Meursault is a gorgeous wine at this level. It shows marvelous harmony in a round, supple style well suited to near-term drinking. I find it amazing that Jadot produced a whopping 330 barrels of this wine, an enormity by Burgundian standards, at this level of quality and price. 89 points

The 2009 Chardonnay Bench Break is a rich, lush wine laced with expressive tropical fruit. It shows excellent depth all the way through to the round, enveloping finish. The Bench Break was fermented in oak barrels (55% new) and aged on its lees with batonnage for ten months. 89 Points

By: Dr. Vino

Dr. Vino — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:54:20 +0000

Wino – Sorry to have to call foul, but if Blake wrote something here or elsewhere that irked you, please engage with that specifically. Ad hominem swipes have no place here; this is especially so from someone not divulging their own identity.

By: John Glas

John Glas — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 14:38:32 +0000

Gabe,

You assume that all wine shops can recommend good wine. Most people who own a wine shop know something (some more than others) and most people who own a liquor store/wine shop know very little. In Minneapolis there are less than ten wine shops I would feel comfortable sending a friend into to get a good bottle of wine for $10.

By: Bill Klapp

Bill Klapp — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 14:11:07 +0000

“On January 9th, 2012 at 11:35 pm ,Wino wrote:

Does anybody know if Blake Gray is as much of a prick in person as he is online?”

I do not know, but probably not. I know that I am not!

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 04:37:23 +0000

In general, if the true 100 point scale were used, I think that we would all have less of an issue. If the tasting notes set the wines apart, we would have less of an issue.

If a good wine got 80 points and a a GREAT wine got 90 points, the formula would work better.

Unfortunately, 90 points is average and 99 points is great. That needs to change, or the point thing will continue to be a hot button topic.

11 years in this business, and I can see many consumers getting sick of the points system. At the same time, new folks coming into wine collecting are all about it. Andif you are buying Bordeaux at $100-1000 per btl, it is all about points.