![]() I use the World of Fine Wine Magazine 100 point scale.ĩ6-100 Great wine of spellbinding beauty and resonance, leaving the drinker with a sense of wonderĩ0-95 Outstanding wine of great beauty and articulacyĨ6-89 Very good wine with some outstanding featuresĨ3-85 Good wwine with no outstanding featuresĨ0-82 Enjoyable but simple and straightforwardħ5-80 Sound but dull or boring wine with no character or appeal Peer group tasting also make the truly great wines seem less great as something else regularly get similar scores even if the quality of the two is miles apart. Then it's not a true peer group taster in my opinion. I can't remember ever to have seen a rosé wine getting a perfect score as an example. Peer group tastings in my opinion make wines from lesser grapes or areas seem to be better than they actually are as the benchmark is lower, and most peer group tasters tend not to rate a wine perfectly within the group either, which makes it all a bit strange. For the bottle or sample that is tasted there and then, as that one is. Wines are scored for quality and quality only. B My Bourgogne the same with more than 200 producer profiles and B My Wine is on its way as well with loads of producers represented from the rest of the world. B My Bordeaux is one of the world’s largest collections of Bordeaux tasting notes from one taster with more than 450 producer profiles and some 16.000 tasting notes on Bordeaux. ![]() Please pardon my errors in a foreign language as some tasting notes have been written quickly. I live in Norway, I'm a freelance wine writer and a wine educator and after several requests I write all my TN’s in English. Comandeur d'Honneur de Médoc ou des Graves, de Sauternes ou Barsac de l'Ordre du Bontemps in 2017Īll views are my personal ones. Prud’homme de la Jurade de Saint-Emilion in 2015 Gentilhomme d’Honneur du Duché de Fronsac in 2015 Hospitalier d’Honneur de Hospitaliers de Pomerol in 2014 I am a wine fanatic, I have WSET Diploma (level 4) in Wines and Spirits and have had the great honour to be inducted as: Or what about drinking a 1945? After the war was over and they were able to make some of the most legendary wines of all time. ![]() Imagine drinking your birth year wine, you drink you're own age, and in a way your own life. Wine can be almost everything, great pleasure, great fun, deeply tragic, complex, easy, boring, fresh, fantastic, but maybe the greatest of it all, floating history. When you get that one bottle, or even that one sip of a truly great wine, you're just lost. To me wine is one of the greatest and sometimes worst of the world’s great pleasures. Starting in 2015 with some estates, but from 2016 even some Grand Cru Classé estates started to quote tasting notes from this website for their 2016 primeur campaigne.
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