A lot of people are clueless about the wine scoring system, and that is not meant to be harsh in the least.  The truth is that, myself included, the wine scoring system just seems like a number applied to wine to rate it’s appeal.  A more detailed explanation is that certain ranges represent the appeal of the wine given the criteria of that range.

So to ease everyone’s mind, here are some links that provide some insightful information to wine scoring.

• Cork’d | How to score wine on the 100 point scale
• Wikipedia | Wine tasting descriptors

Personally, I need to brush up on the tasting descriptors.  But for other amateur wine tasters, you may enjoy reading the how to at Cork’d, it was very useful to me when learning how to taste wine.