It’s become fashionable to bash wine reviews and reviewers in favour of more ‘reliable’ opinions, like friends you trust on social media.
We too love all the social mediums but we also bring extensive travel, thousands of on-site visits, decades of tasting experience and at GOW, 24,500 published reviews with our names on them. We can’t be right every time but more often than not we assess wines for what they are and what they might be and try to be fair by scoring them all on a global scale. The chance of your favourite $12 wine getting 90 points at GOW are miniscule, but an 87 or 88 for the same wine is an excellent score and big buy signal. It also maintains perspective leaving room for great wines to claim scores in the 90s that befit them and are meaningful. Okay, back to summer, the main harvest rush is only weeks off here in the northern hemisphere.
Written By: ag