The program is called “Bordeaux shoots and scores.&#. The next step in the program will be to pre-score individual wines. A French scientist has determined a way to evaluate the quality of the next Bordeaux vintage–vintage 2011, that is. “We are certain to 99% level that our forecast is accurate,&# Meganote said. MORE >>

While I could see grammar and readability in tasting notes–either user-generated or from critics–making a difference on sales, wine writing (for better or generally for worse) has its own Mechanical Turk for smoothing out all those pesky words: the score. will blow yer mind! An interesting phenomenon to be sure. wine writing MORE >>

Is inflation crippling wine scores? In the near future, will it take a wheelbarrow of points to sell a Moscato? Let’s hope Ben Bernanke–or, eegad, Paul Volcker!–doesn’t –doesn’t read this post or he might take the punch bowl away. Fully 123 the wines received 95 or more points. 91 and 92 are no mans land. MORE >>

The story also applies the discussion to wine ratings and scores, underscoring their inherent subjectivity even though pallets of wine are bought and sold every day on these snapshots. Saturday’s WSJ catches up with Robert Hodgson’s research on the randomness of gold medals in wine competitions. Yeah, me either. MORE >>

” Ironically, score inflation is the most likely threat to the 100-point system today. Another commenter on the thread, Claude Kolm , relayed that in Maynard Amerine and Maynard Joslyn’s Table Wines (1970 edition) they discuss various scoring systems including a 50-point, 100-point and even a 200-point system. wine writin MORE >>