How do YOU keep score?

[Jerry D Mead]

Randy, Randy...It's all shorthand. I use a hundred points these days (both for quality and value), but I've used the old 20 system too, and when I judged for Craig Goldwyn in the early days of his Bev Testing Institute, I even used his 14-point hedonistic system. I've rated by stars (usually a four or five point system...6 if you count no stars at all) and other numbers in between. I've used a negative point system preferred by the OIV at their international shows. It doesn't matter. It's all shorthand...it's all about communicating.

Without realizing it you just told us you use points too...yours is a 12 point system. You could just as easily write 12 as Ex+ and know perfectly well what you meant.

Re drinkability, I usually (though admittedly not always) cover that in my descriptive text.

JDM

[This message has been edited by Wine Curmudgeon (edited 03-28-99).]