I was sent a bottle of Aromes de Pavie to have a taste, the sender having been unimpressed by some one's remark about the wine garnering low points, or the like. As it turned out, that vintage was not scored by Parker or the major critics anyway, but why get upset about scores, especially if as I suspect with a second wine like this, one is not aiming to resell for profit, but to have a drink and enjoy oneself?
Anyway my feeling about wine scores formed the basis of a mini-series in March (here and here) and February of 2012 (1, 2, and 3 in reverse chronological order). I have not changed my thoughts about scores, merely to add that the scores are often different between one system and another (eg Parker and Wine Spectator) and sometimes it is instructive to taste wine with the same score. Occasionally the score is the same across systems and that makes for even more instructive analysis. But only if you are in for those sorts of things. For me, it's much more important to find out what I like (and just as importantly what I dislike) about the bottle at hand, for future reference!!
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