How do ya'll consider price when it comes to scoring?

[Chris_Seiber]

@brigcampbell

The QPR would result in a “divide by zero” error.

BTW - great name for a wine!

Maybe a new Carlisle blend

[Tvrtko_C]

I have absolutely no interest in assessing wine for any purpose other than deciding whether or not I like it so much that, ideally, I would like to stock up so as to make sure I have some readily available for drinking whenever I please (meaning, in my cellar). Therefore, I use the binary scale, and price is everything

[Ian_Sutton]

@Chris_Seiber

I don’t use number scores, but if I did, I think the right thing is for it not to factor price.

It’s really not necessary — someone can give a $30 wine 91 points and $120 wine 92 points and figure out the bang for your buck ratio, without needing to change the actual scores to incorporate that.

Agreed, much clearer to keep the two separate (if doing it at all)

As for QPR / bang for your buck, two thoughts to add:

• The scales people invariably use for wine are not as logical as they could be. There are no 0-50 scores, indeed amongst critics there aren’t many below 80, and that low point seems to rise every year. Is what’s left linear? I don’t know, but doubt it. If they give something unpleasant 82 points, is an extra 3 points to get something actually drinkable, comparable to an extra 3 points in the low 90s?

• Having such a skewed scale means dividing points by price isn’t going to be useful e.g.
  81 point wine / $10 price = 8.1 points per buck
  96 point wine / $40 price = 2.9 points per buck

yet I suspect most of us here would not just lean towards the 2nd wine, but may even consider it good value, and better value than the 1st wine!

That’s I’m afraid ‘on us’ for accepting and adopting such a skewed scoring scale that serves critics, producers and retailers, more than it does us punters.

[HoosJustinG]

I don’t think you can or should consider price — both because the prices we actually pay for wines can vary wildly and because price and quality are entirely independent of each other.

The potentially more interesting question IMO is if you should consider region/varietal. IOW: Is it possible to have a 100 point Bordeaux blend from Virginia? Should I be scoring the 2019 King Family Meritage (recent Governor’s Cup gold medal wine) where ‘61 Latour is the 100 point benchmark or where the theoretical best wine possible from Monticello AVA is the benchmark?