Wine ratings

[Florida Jim]

There are a myriad of wine rating systems; numbers, letters, puffs, stars and the odd catch phrase. None of them are my cup of tea and none of them are going away.

As an alternative, I think I’ll start/steal one.

Mine will focus on how a wine goes with a dish or meal that I’m eating. BTW, this not original; I credit on-line personality SFJoe with the idea; a recent post of his got me to thinking; he said that the only real ‘rating’ that means anything is how any wine goes with the food your eating. I agree with him.

Hopefully, by thinking primarily of how the wine goes with the food and trying to put that into words, I will become more attuned to the pairing. I do it every evening at dinner so I should certainly be able to explain why I pick what I do once I know what Diane is cooking and, together, both she and I should be able to say if it worked or not and why.

Please, bear with me while getting started; in a couple of years I should be more sensitive to matching than I was to begin with, but from here on, almost all of my notes will be focused on the pairing of wine and food.

Best, Jim

[Rebel Rose]

Great idea, Jim! What kind of rating system will you use? Cigar Aficionado uses four 'puffs' (for their wine ratings), some newspapers award 'stars' . . . too bad we don't have a little 'munching' emoticon just for you . . .

[melkor]

I prefer the pour-in-mouth (1) pour-in-sink (0) one point rating system. I only like to drink wines that score a 1 on that scale...

Edited July 17, 2007 by melkor (log)

[Florida Jim]

Great idea, Jim!  What kind of rating system will you use?  Cigar Aficionado uses four 'puffs' (for their wine ratings), some newspapers award 'stars' . . . too bad we don't have a little 'munching' emoticon just for you . . .

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You really know how to hurt a guy.

Best, Jim