Interesting to take a fresh look at this after a few years. The two lowest wines in my cellar now are both head-scratchers:
2009 Clotaire Michal St. Joseph - Raj Parr told me this particular wine is great. Not to get into a debate over his cred, but it should certainly be better than a 74.3 average would indicate!
1993 Domaine Georges Mugneret-Gibourg Echezeaux - WTF? (78, but from only a single note)
I don’t understand the average score on that Rhys. I have the same bottle (and it’s my lowest scoring if you ignore the unrated wines), and the 75 is the only score I see. Where did the 84.5 come from? Did it somehow include the 93-94 score Loren gave his bottle in the tasting note itself?
I’d probably put it more in the mid-high 80’s if I was scoring, but I do so infrequently these days…
There’s a setting to show/not show noteless scores - see the “Note Display Settings” link underneath the median score listing on a wine’s page for the toggle.
Turns out I do not like Swan Terrace, despite begin a big Rhys fan. I have had negative reactions to other vintages as well, just without the vindictive score!
Updating this, I now have more than 250 wines without scores, the Luneau-Papin and Joguet are still at the bottom and the 2010 Puzelat is now an 89. Newer additions at the bottom include 2009 Patricia Green Cellars Pinot Noir Mysterious at 75 points and 1998 Domaine Gramenon Côtes du Rhône Villages Les Laurentides and 2013 Les Vins Contés (Olivier Lemasson) Cheville de Fer at 79 points. I’m still not even remotely concerned about any of these scores.
2013 Domaine Sylvain Langoureau Bourgogne Hautes-Côtes de Beaune Clos Marc at 84 points
2013 Bodegas Olivares Monastrell Altos de la Hoya Finca Hoya de Santa Ana Jumilla at 85.1 points