How do you use the Cellar Tracker Tasting Note feature??

[Mike_Francisco]

@Chris Foley

@Neal.Mollen

For all I know, the guy’s (assuming) scale goes from 88 to 93.

When I encounter a tasting note which seems discordant like that on a wine I like, I go look at that members other tasting notes to get a better read on where his tastes lie and how he scores wine.
It may be that he overstates his position on the perceived flaws, yet uses scores more in line with consensus.

Whether it is an odd scoring systems, going with the average of other users or parroting a Pro, these all corrupt the data and therefore, the outcome. That is why I find the average of little to no value. Where even with notes that don’t square with mine, I can still find value in the differing point of view.

I do score wines with my notes as a shorthand to myself to help gage my level of enjoyment over time, in tasting group or with varying foods and company.

[Ian_Sutton]

FWIW I think ****s note on the Bedrock wine is written in quite a useful style. They’ve said not just that they don’t like it, but why they don’t like it. They’ve added that it didn’t change over the course of an hour, and even given the price paid. An informative TN.

As for the score, I understand Mike’s confusion how 88 is suddenly a bad score vs. what the CT link suggests (very good), but from my perspective it’s just a deeper shade of ludicrous. From my perspective **** can score using whatever system they like.

[dsimmons]

@Mike Francisco

@Chris Foley

@Neal.Mollen

For all I know, the guy’s (assuming) scale goes from 88 to 93.

When I encounter a tasting note which seems discordant like that on a wine I like, I go look at that members other tasting notes to get a better read on where his tastes lie and how he scores wine.
It may be that he overstates his position on the perceived flaws, yet uses scores more in line with consensus.

Whether it is an odd scoring systems, going with the average of other users or parroting a Pro, these all corrupt the data and therefore, the outcome. That is why I find the average of little to no value. Where even with notes that don’t square with mine, I can still find value in the differing point of view.

I do score wines with my notes as a shorthand to myself to help gage my level of enjoyment over time, in tasting group or with varying foods and company.

I have 1007 different wines in my cellar. The highest CT ranking is 97.8 and the lowest is 84.7. The median is 91.6. To me this is appears to be a fairly normal distribution of scores. If I had time to plot all of the scores I suspect the distribution would be skewed to the high side with a mean score higher than the median.

I find the CT scores useful as long as you understand the limitations. For example, if I am considering a wine and the CT score is 88 with 100 reviewers I would almost always pass. Since I live in Alaska and do not get to taste most of the wines I buy I use a combination of my past experience (most important), CT scores and reviews (second most important) and critic scores (least important). When using the CT scores it is important to see how many reviews went into the average and to read the reviews of those reviewers that you trust.

[craig_v]

I enter a tasting note for nearly every btl. I usually only skip very frequent repeats like Roderer Brut from CA and never just post a score. Nearly always info on the wine prep if my btl and my impressions.

CT TNs are invaluable in buying decisions for backfilling wines well past release and for gauging when to open wines and how to prep them if previous tasters have stated their prep. I do tend to give credence to the TNs posted in last year or 3. Older notes are interesting but the wine las likely moved on.