Can anyone explain to me how an entire region for a particular vintage earns a 100-point rating (Piedmont, 2000) but not every wine from that region and vintage earned 100 points? Just seemed a little bit strange to me, and further solidified my general mistrust of the whole rating system.
Gary
I'm no fan of WS, but in fairness they don't purport the vintage scores to be an average of all scores. The vintage is rated as a whole, for how the weather affected potential for wines. The same criteria is basically used by anyone (that I know of) who does vintage ratings, whether it's Parker's 100 pt scale, Hugh J's 10 glass, Decanter's 5 star, or whatever.
That being said, if faced with a choice of wines to buy that I couldn't taste first, I'd take '96 or '99 Piemontes over '00 or '97 of the same wines. I haear '01 is good, but haven't seen many.
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