“92 points from WS !”

“90 pts from WE !”

“Our in-house wine buyer gives this bottle 90 points!”

Right.  I’m done with the points bullshit.  Everything in a 750 ml bottle got 90 points from someone.  It is a sad distillation of the fabulous complexity of wine to give it a grade-inflated score (consider that piss-poor wine still usually gets a C).  And I still can’t tell if the “aromas of violets, tobacco, compost and lingering tastes of truffles, pencil lead and bacon” crap that comes from certain wine enthusiasts is misguided and mistaken hubris, or just unabashed caca.  Either way I can’t get into it…

And so onward… to an emoticon-based rating system.  No explanations necessary!  Subjectivity implied, inherent and indulged.

Cheers.