Wine Rankings For Your Charity Wines

Wine ratings are generally one of the best sources of information for the uninformed

wine drinker trying to make the right choice from wines he or she has never tried. Identifying a specific bottle of wine's quality and characteristics without tasting it tends to be very difficult, but with wine ratings you can at least get an idea and compare ratings to bottles you do know to get a feel for what they mean. This is useful if you're trying to put together a charity wines list and can't risk going wrong with an expensive award winning wine, just as much as it is helpful when picking a bottle to bring to dinner with some friends. But you have to learn how to understand wine rankings, which is its own form of literacy.

The first thing to remember is that the more familiar with wine vocabulary, the more useful reviews and rating systems will be. Familiarity comes from tasting wines thoroughly, reading about and discussing them to see what parts of the wine you identified, and then figuring out how the vocabulary used relates to the physical sensations the wine produces. So go study first!

Second, wine taste is obviously subjective. This is the reason Wine Spectator's ratings will come in such a range for the same bottle. They usually have 10 people on staff taste and review the wine, and their preferences influence what they say. Nonetheless, the difference between a solidly good wine and an unbearably poor one will show up in ratings, so they are always useful. Enjoying wine is a complex practice that involves smelling the aroma of the wine as well as evaluating how it tastes and how it feels in the mouth. Just as with other food and drink, every sensory aspect of consuming wine contributes to how enjoyable it is, so wine raters will evaluate the texture and aroma of the wine as well as its flavor in the mouth.

The major wine rating bodies in the United States, Wine Spectator and Wine Advocate, both regularly test new wines and have a large library of reviews on their websites. They also often taste older wines, so a review from 10 years ago may or may not be that helpful for a bottle you'll open this weekend. Tasting is usually done blind, so you can at least reliably expect reviews to be uninfluenced by things like name, place name, and bribes. Wines are ranked on a scale from 50 to 100, and anything over 89 tends to be very good. The score is important, but the written descriptors will often be more useful because you can read between the lines and figure out where you would probably agree with the taster's subjective analysis. Part of getting the most from these reviews is by comparing them against review by the same taster about wines you know personally.

The safest bet when trying to buy new wines based on the wine rating system is to use it to eliminate options that will be especially poor and then make your own choice by tasting the remaining options. This is perfect, for example, when you have to select charity wines to sell for a cause or serve at an event, because it gives you maximum personal insight into the wine.

by: John V

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