I’m interested in peoples’ opinions about ranking white and red wines together. This arises out of a recent tasting of a selection of wines from a recent releases of a certain retailer. It included one sparkler, 2 whites and seven reds. Our usual tastings are more conventionally focused. Participants normally rank the wines (up to them how they score or otherwise do that), and we crudely aggregate the rankings to get a group ranking. Clearly a process that should not be overthought, however …
Some people expressed concern at the idea of ranking white against red wines. Put that way it does sound odd. On the other hand, if the wines are all being scored objectively (!) then a ranking automatically follows. Another way to look at it is - which wine am I most likely to buy (ignoring price)? That’s is number one, and so on. Is it really any odder than ranking, say, Cali Pinot against Burgundy?
Thoughts?