Tom Hewson skriv ett intressant inlägg efter att ha läst en text i ämnet av Jamie Goode.
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I’ve scored a couple of big releases (£350+ bottle prestige releases from major maisons) 93 and 94 this year for Decanter. If you see a Prestige wine at 94 points, does that read as a good score or a bit of a snub to you? There’s some truth in saying that those scores for top Bordeaux releases would earn you a black mark as a critic. Outside of wine circles, though, people often still interpret them as glowing endorsements.
For what it’s worth I don’t think Champagne is as formalised, inflated or narrow as Bordeaux appears to be. It helps that there are a couple of other critics - Essi Avellan, Antonio Galloni and Kelley/Castaing for Wine Advocate especially - who don’t automatically go over 95 for top end wines. The wine I scored 93 was also scored 93 by Galloni (which I didn’t know when I wrote the review; I try and avoid reading too many other opinions on wines until after I get a chance to taste them). There’s a bit of safety in numbers perhaps.
All in all, scoring is a bit of a ‘code’ to me, where the score interacts with the price, the words and the nature of the wine itself to complete a picture.
If it gets to a point where 95 is a snub for a Prestige Cuvée, though, I must be going into a lot of black books! And don’t get me started on score ranges….
