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Re:The wine tasting event: Distinguishing reds from whites (... by ryansouza on Saturday February 19, 2022 @11:22AM (#30398224)
My understanding is that wines rated 92/93 really aren’t that good, that scoring is heavily weighted
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Re:The wine tasting event: Distinguishing reds from whites (... by CharlesW on Saturday February 19, 2022 @11:59AM (#30398512)
Also, it's not as if wine connoisseurship lacks informed criticism from people who are not beer-swilling ignoramuses. Marc Dornan, of the Beverage Testing Institute, for instance, says to anyone who asks him that rating wines on a hundred-point scale, which is now common practice, is "utterly pseudoscientific."

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2002/08/19/the-red-and-th...

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