Paolo and Amanda began Pour Wine Reviews, an amateur wine reviews video blog, to share their experiences tasting and learning about wine. They have no formal wine education but drink a lot of wine, if that counts for anything.
Wine tasting can be intimidating, and intimidating experiences aren’t necessarily fun, so to that extent, Pour Wine Reviews is the anti-tasting tasting blog. (Read: We’re breaking the rules and having fun!)
Paolo and Amanda do not believe in the use of spit buckets. Save water, drink wine.
They rate wines based upon a five-cork scale: one cork being terrible and five corks being fan-fricken-tastic. If they rate a wine differently, they take the average for the score.
Unless otherwise disclosed, Paolo or Amanda have purchased the wine they review.
Rating system:
Paolo and Amanda use a 5-cork (think: stars) rating system, as used by many wine bloggers. Lenndevours best articulated the scoring system and its 100-point equivalent, which we have slightly modified below.
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Corks
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Description
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Estimated 100-point Equivalent
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| 5 | Definition of wine; Jesus wine |
97-100 |
| 4.5 | A- | 94-96 |
| 4 | Simply delicious |
90-93 |
| 3.5 | Pleasant, above average | 88-89 |
| 3 | Solid, recommended | 85-87 |
| 2.5 | Above average (duh) | 80-84 |
| 2 | Average | 78-79 |
| 1.5 | Below average (duh) | 75-77 |
| 1 | Clean your floors with this | 74 or less |