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[M.Kaplan]

@Keith Levenberg

@Ken Strauss

Parker’s base is 50 points
General color and appearance can get up to 5 points
Aroma and bouquet can get up to 15 points
Flavor and finish up to 20 points…intensity,flavor,balance,cleanliness and depth and length
Finally overall quality level or potential for further evolution and improvement…aging… up to 10 points.


Yes anyone can use this as a guide. I think many reviewers just pick a #.
I didnt look for a link. I just repeated what Parker says in the beginning of his book I bought many years ago.

Yeah, I hate to be the one to break the news that there is no Santa Claus, but he doesn’t actually do any of that math. He just picks a number. We know that because there were some magazine articles that had snapshots of his notebooks and there were no “50+5+15+20+10” calculations there. Just the scores.

I’m 99+ on that.

• James Suckling

[CFu]

@M.Kaplan

@Keith Levenberg

@Ken Strauss

Parker’s base is 50 points
General color and appearance can get up to 5 points
Aroma and bouquet can get up to 15 points
Flavor and finish up to 20 points…intensity,flavor,balance,cleanliness and depth and length
Finally overall quality level or potential for further evolution and improvement…aging… up to 10 points.


Yes anyone can use this as a guide. I think many reviewers just pick a #.
I didnt look for a link. I just repeated what Parker says in the beginning of his book I bought many years ago.

Yeah, I hate to be the one to break the news that there is no Santa Claus, but he doesn’t actually do any of that math. He just picks a number. We know that because there were some magazine articles that had snapshots of his notebooks and there were no “50+5+15+20+10” calculations there. Just the scores.

I’m 99+ on that.

• James Suckling

what formula was that based on

[M.Kaplan]

[lleichtman]

@Mel Knox

I have never understand what is so special about a 100 pt system vs a 20 p-t system…unless you want to go to 1000 pts!!

Hasn t Parker said that scores just come to him in his head??

It isn t just in Europe where nobody can afford to live. There was a story in the paper here about a school teacher who was homeless. I just saw an ad for what we used to call a townhouse ( a two story duplex) in what used to be ghetto for 1.8 million.

Airlines miles?? What a joke…impossible to use in a meaningful way, unless you are one of those guys who really flies a lot.

By the way, there is/was a three star restaurant in London called Bibendum…who is also the icon of Michelin

I just use a modified ABC system that works well for me. I’m not trying to get anything published.

[RichardFlack]

I’m not a subscriber but didn’t WA site say something about funded and financed solely by subscribers? Does it still? Has it changed that

My questions would be, what does WA need finance for? It’s pretty well up and running now, isn’t it?
And, what is Michelins strategy here? Rating wineries?