Question about ratings

[Thomas]

In my experience, I have come to understand and to believe that ratings are ostensibly based on comparisons, but mainly wind up being based on bias, if not down right contempt for anything misunderstood or not within certain confines, et al.

I am one wine guy who wishes those numbers would fade away--completely! When a rater can illuminate me, lucidly, as to the difference between a wine scoring 89 and one scoring 91, I will perhaps reconsider.