Astrales Scores ... Not just x10?

Dear Paco, dear Juan, dear all,

I have seen your comments of Astrales 2001 in Spanish... http://www.verema.com/comunidad/vinoscatados/vino.asp?vino=4891

And after seeing your comments in English http://www.verema.com/en/tastingnotes/wine.asp?wine=4891 I was considering to translate me note as well.

However, I had a big surprise about the scores... in the English version they are higher than the spanish (not just x10).

Why? Can you please explain me that? Is any conversion formula or table from ’Spanish score’ to ’English score’? Any hint to me, what should be my score?

Many thanks!

Salut!

Joan

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Regards,

Jose

It’s just the result of a change of scale....

Then with this english scale, a wine with 0 in spanish scale, will have 50 points in english scale. I think that this translation formula could be very confuse. Why don’t aply simply Xx10?

Regards

Choche.

The American rating system (at least Parker and Wine Spectator employ it) use a 50-100 point quality scale. That means that a wine with 50 points (the minimum) is equivalent to 0 points in a 10 points scale.

Therefore, 90 points means 40 points out of 50 available, or a 8/10.

The meaning of the scale of 100 points is explained here: http://www.verema.com/en/tastingnotes/ratingsystem.asp

I used the Parker rate when scoring wines on the Spanish web but scoring over ten. Tell me what I have to do now, I suppose I’ll do the same but over 100 points

Cheers

You can put your rating as a 100 point system or as a 10 point system. In the last case the system automatically converts to the 100 point scale (applying the formula X*5 + 50).

Just try the process with your first TN! :-)

I’ll do it when I get encouraged to paste my firt tasting note. It will be soon, I promise :-))))