Johnson's scale for the desirability of a wine

Before Johnson wrote the piece about Scoring Points in the 2008 Pocket Wine Book, he used to offer this assessment of wines. One sniff was the minimum score, reflecting - no thanks. One sip was the next step up, with two sips expressing faint interest (or disbelief). A half glass was used to denote slight hesitation whilst a full glass meant tolerance, even general approval. Two glasses means you quite like it (or there is nothing else to drink) and three would indicate that the wine was more than acceptable. A wine warranting a four glass must have tickled your fancy, and those scored a whole bottle must have provided satisfaction. "Two bottles" is the real thumbs up and the full case (12 btls) means you're not going to miss out on it. He concluded with -the logical top score is the whole vineyard!!

Now this scale is much more about concepts. I like the idea that it is logarithmic, as nature is logarithmic too. Think of the musical scale, an octave is double the frequency of lower note and two octaves is four times. As for the idea that you like a wine so much that you go out and buy a case, well, we've done that with Chateau La Conseillante 1996!