Young wines merit a perfect score?
Young wines merit a perfect score?
Ver mensaje de Juan SuchI have read in the IWC discussion forum this post from Steve Tanzer:
’I find it very difficult, if not impossible, to give a young wine a perfect score. After all, perfection comes as a wine develops near-magical balance and great complexity, which normally require years of bottle aging. And as amazing as a young wine may be, it’s impossible to assume that it will achieve perfection. That said, in tastings of mature wines through the years, I’ve given perfect scores to numerous wines. When I get a moment (after I finish the next issue), I’ll try to provide a longer list, but for the moment here are a few that come to mind: 1961 Latour and 1961 Jaboulet Hermitage La Chapelle, 1947 Lafleur and Petrus, 1921 Cheval Blanc and Yquem.’ (Oct 21, 2003)
Do you agree with this comment? I certainly think that there are many critics that are too quick to dole out perfect scores for young wines. This doesn’t leave any room in the score for their future improvement. Perhaps, as someone in that IWC forum comment, we’re going to start seeing the first 105-point wines from some critics who seem to consider multiple new wine releases each year worthy of a ";perfect"; score...
Re: Young wines merit a perfect score?
Ver mensaje de Juan SuchDear Juan,
I think it depends on your purpose when scoring a wine. If you’re a professional wine taster you’re supossed to taste wines on ";primeur";, so that you should score those wines having in mind their potential quality in the future. Being a private taster, my opinion is that a perfect wine should mature for years until reach glory for taster.
Sorry for my english
Gonzalo Lainez (Bodegas Roda)
Re: Young wines merit a perfect score?
Ver mensaje de Gonzalo_LainezHi Gonzalo,
I used to apologize about my English in every single talk I gave. But a dear dear dear friend of mine told me once that I should never do that: people is not interested in whether I am sorry or not about my English, they just want to hear what I have to say about statistics! (the quality of my English, whatever it is, being quite evident, anyway :-))
Nite-nite (and your English is pretty good! nothing to be sorry about)
MaJesus
Perfect scores in professional critics
Ver mensaje de Gonzalo_LainezGonzalo, regarding professional wine tasting there are critics like Parker, WS or Andrés Proensa (in Spain) which tend to assign several 100 point wines each year. On the other side, there are people like Steve Tanzer which are more prudent with their ratings.
Parker says in his publication: ";The Wine Advocate takes a hard, very critical look at wine, since I would prefer to underestimate the wine’s quality than to overestimate it."; I think that there are two many 100 point young wines rated by Bob if he is really ";underestimating the wine’s quality";...
Re: Perfect scores in professional critics
Ver mensaje de Juan SuchI’m more close to Tanzer’s than Parker’s way of scoring. I think Parker is too generous with his scores and with the years of maturity for the wines he tastes
Gonzalo Lainez (Bodegas Roda)