Would you upload videos rating wines out of 100?
In this whole thread, this is the comment that stands out to me the most. Why would anyone assign a score (except maybe 50) to a faulty wine?
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I hear you.
If I encounter a faulty wine, I rate it as NR (faulty) in cellartracker (basically the only media where I rate wines).
Of course I might rate wines that are either flawed or perfectly fine but just lousy in many other ways with a score of 70 or below.
To me somewhere around 85 is the limit where are the wines I would buy for myself. However, depending on the situation, there are still wines I can drink but wouldn’t buy for me - I’d say those are around 75-85. The 70-75 range is for wines I can drink if need be, but I won’t enjoy them.
Then below 70 are wines I’d rather not drink at all. And there is a whole world of wines ranging from perfectly harmless but quite flavorless and structureless (that’d be in the ballpark of 65-69) to utterly horrible, disgusting monstrosities (50-55). They are not faulty wines, just very bad wines.
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85/5-10=7. Don’t you think that’s more like what could be called an average score. For example, movies on IMDB are rated 7/10 on average. 85 feels like it should be the score of something superior.
It only feels like it. Since the scale is 50-100 (and not, for example, 0-100), 85/100 actually equates to 35/50. Pretty average, if you ask me!
No , it’s 88/100 …
that’s the problem
I’m perhaps the wrong person to answer this, given my contempt for points and especially points systems that would give at least 50 to a glass of piss - let’s not kid ourselves, such biased scales help ingratiate the critic with the wineries and shops, cementing their symbiotic relationship.
However to answer the question. I would say:
- for a corked or oxidised (by excess age, failed cork, or premox) wine, I agree. It’s meaningless.
- For a wine with VA or brett etc. our definition of faulty can vary (for instance I often quite like light-medium brett, and I berate recent Musar for the loss of its previously typical VA). Such debatable faults make it a touch more reasonable to still give a score, but our varying tolerance to such ‘faults’ makes it an even bigger minefield of palate variation / preferences.
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1st thing: YES
Almost nobody does … but that is RMPs definition.
It’s actually a 70 to 100 point scale …
that’s why 15/20 is 85/100
And WTF do they start this awful scale at 50?
Quit calling it a 100 point scale.
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That aside, people are not going to run toward a decimalized version of the 100 point scale.
I think you’d be better off making a new scale, altogether.
Maybe a 6 point scale like figure skating, or a tennis scoring scale: 0,15, 30, 40, “Game!” scale.
Maybe an 8 point scale, with the top score being a peck.
500 points could get you some real precision, top score would be a ream.
A 12 squared (144) point scale with the top being a gross.
Or, why stop at 500 and make a thousand point Trojan War scale, each wine could score “milli-Helens” and a top score would be a “Helen.”
You gotta capture people’s imaginations…and, if you are serious, you will have to have little emojis to go with the scores.
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I mainly do photos on Instagram
Just make sure that your new scale goes to 11. . .
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No scale is awful …
maybe the use of it …
…except for people who have gone to school or taken standardized tests.
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American Bandstand missed the mark by ‘this much’ …
…when Rate A Record said “Between 35 and 98.”
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93 pts
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I think we should rate the best wines over 100. That way we’d have better wines.
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what is tiktok?
What would be the point of this? Anyone who wants to do it can already do it on an existing platform, and you have no enforcement mechanism to make people use your rating system as you understand it. Also, for obvious reasons, there is no difference between rating something on a scale of 0.1 to 10.0 vs. rating something on a scale of 1 to 100. Lastly, I’d rather stick a fork in my eyes than make or watch videos of content that’s perfectly suitable to writing text like a normal person.
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The question that remains to be answered is will millennials ever come out the other side to meet you or will they one day be your age still living in 30 second clips?
By the time the question is answered most of us won’t be here or if we are care anymore.