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Georges rates and prefers to underestimate the wine's quality than to overestimate it.  Rather than duplicating vague tasting prose and praise found on back labels, he takes a critical look at wine and his notes are known to be prolific.

However, evaluation and enjoying wine cannot be the prerogative of one man only. Your taste matters too and weighs in quite squarely. Very cautiously, this site offers a way of registering how much you like a wine at the time it was tasted or drunk.

The rating system employs a flexible 70-100 point quality scale. Today's wines are well made and the scoring system gives every soundly made wine a base of 70 points. Your tasting notes will weigh in at 20 points whilst Georges' numeric score will count for 10 points. Both scores can sway the final score either way.

The numerical ratings are utilised only to enhance and complement genuine, thorough tasting notes which really convey what a particular wine has - or has not - to offer.

Wines that are found to be faulty are not rated. However, the fact that a particular wine hasn't been assessed, doesn't mean that it is per se faulty. It could be that it just hasn't been rated yet.

90-100 is equivalent to an A and is given only to a wine that is a truly excellent example in its category; an A+ is a wine that moves you.

80-89 is equivalent to a B on a school report and such a wine, particularly in the 85-89 range, is very, very good. Many of the wines that fall into this range, rated B+, often offer great value as well.

70-79 represents a C, or a pass mark. Wines that receive scores in the upper 70s, or a C+, are generally pleasant to drink but rarely exciting to talk about.

Wine scores and tasting notes are good fun, but to quote the Emperor of Wine Robert Parker Jr. himself: "There can never be any substitute for your own palate nor any better education than tasting the wine yourself."

So, please let's here it from you!