Very glad that you got to the issue of availability. Some producers don’t produce enough for export, and enter contests mainly for validation for themselves and their local market.
If I would make wine, I would also like to know if what I think is good, is also good amongst wine professionals, I guess. 🤷♀️ Sometimes we love what we do so much, we think it is perfect- and it is good to have a feedback from a side. 🙌
That limited ability to purchase the wine unless one can obtain it from the country of origin is frustrating to say the least. The fact that the judges know the region of origin could also be a bias. Then again, I have friends that can tell you the country of origin of any wine that you challenge them with, generating about a 90% accuracy.
why hasn't the wine rating scale been fully used. For example, wine never gets 10 or 25 points. I'm a techie and it's bad practice not to use the entire scale.
Well, winemakers not only provide the wines, they also have to pay fees to finance these contests. Which isn’t perfect, but there’s no other way. These magazines and guides don’t have the funds to pay everything.
Great reaction and re-cap video. The wine world continues to develop and mature, though sadly a lot of of these wines are only available at their region/country of origin. Or in some cases in mature wine markets at higher prices. Cool to see Latvia getting it's name on the board. Cheers!
I adore Barolo too! Barolo and Amarone are my favorites and were my favorites growing up. They were always on my family dinner table and my father had a habit of sneaking me tastes even under the watchful eye of my mother when I could barely reach said table😂
I always believe Champagne Rare is punching above its weight. It has the best QPR, and it ages beautifully, especially in magnums. The beautifully designed bottle is worth the price in itself. My wife won't throw the empty ones away!
Oh... is that time again of the year, isn't it? Its always amusing how clueless these wines awards are. For Portugal the most non-sensical Gold awards this year were: 1-Giving a supermarket cheap Moscatel Roxo de Setúbal (one from Pingo Doce) 95 points. Hilarious stuff. More hilarious yet, they gave the SAME 95 points to another completely different Moscatel Roxo de Setúbal bottled for another supermarket (Continente, under the brand Contemporal). Guess the two largest supermarket chains have to be BOTH awarded a Gold Award. 2-Giving the same 95 points to a 30yo Tawny and a 40yo Tawny. 3- Giving the same 95 points to 2 completely distinct wines from the same winery (Quinta do Tedo) with one being a "old vines" style wine with 24 months of wood in french oak casks and the other being made from industrially processed new vines with 11 months in regular casks. 4- Giving 95 points (like almost all Gold Awards) to a run-of-the-mill Alentejo wine (Montes Claros, by Adega de Borba) that costs 3 euros. If this randomness doesn't make you laugh, you have no sense of humour.
It is very easy to judge wines knowing the labels. It is much harder to judge them in blind, and there is no reason why supermarket brand would be straight considered bad without giving much thought. In many cases, I know some myself, there are epic producers making and selling wine to be labelled under the supermarket brand name. But unfortunately contract forbids the both sides to disclose this information. So I am actually happy that shows that great wines can be made at lower price points, and that not only cult producers are recognised. After all - this was tasted in blind, and that says a lot. 🙏🏻
But the 100 pts system is not about comparison between wines like you are suggesting. Every bottle stands on its own merit, graded against the industry standards for varietal/blend. I will agree that scores become somewhat nonsensical when "every" wine is granted 95+. However, isn't it a great thing to live in a time when quality wines are accessible to most people via, say, supermarket label?
@@panaceiasuberes6464 the bigger injustice is the fact you arent a famous wine critic. the world would be better off to simply follow your tastes as clearly the professionals dont know what they are doing lol
Well, I don’t necessarily think the awards themselves are bad (although at the end of the day, it’s about how much you trust someone’s very personal taste which could definitely differ from your own), for me it’s more about the availability. If you’re living in the US, like me, it’s gonna be as Agnese mentioned at the end of the video. It’s simply getting harder and harder to acquire lots of these great wines because the production is so small.
