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• tward says:

  2/1/2021 9:27:00 AM - Hi there. I posted the message below as a comment to one of your TNs, but wanted to repeat here. It is presented in good faith as a member of the CT community. There was another note in which I and another CT user commented on your "low" score (in the low-70s). I got your reply via email before you deleted that and wanted to chime in and hopefully be helpful. The "100-point" scale is confusing and not everyone uses it the same. Some CT users are influenced by the very obvious "score inflation" by several "professional reviewers" - James Suckling comes immediately to mind as does Jeb Dunnuck. It's not uncommon to find wines they've rated in the mid-90s getting lots of CT user scores in the upper-80s to low-90s, but some CT users have gotten into the mindset that anything below 90 somehow isn't good. I, like many other CT users, try to really follow the 100-point scale as described by the CT platform. You can read about it here (and there is a link to it next to the field where you enter your score on the CT TN screen). https://support.cellartracker.com/article/49-tasting-notes-and-ratings You'll note that the bottom of the scale is 50, not zero! Strange, but true. It's got a long history... Many of us would very much disagree that "85-90 is considered Low" - look at the scale that CT describes. 85-90 is the "Very Good" range. (Also, some CT users use the score to capture QPR - they are not scoring the absolute quality / enjoyment / technical detail alone, but adjusting that based on the price paid. I, along with many other CT users do *not* do that. We use the scale as described and use the TN text to comment on QPR.) I hope this helps!