Community Tasting Note

• Jammy Wine wrote: 84 points

  May 24, 2020 - This 2010 De Montille Pommard 1er Cru Les Pezerolles was surprisingly expressive and elegant, not your usual rustic and tannic Pommard. 66% whole cluster fermentation. Dark berry fruits, strawberry, earthy ripe stems and delicate spices. One of the most elegant wine of the Pommard and Volnay themed evening. Premier Cru intensity with good acidity and freshness. Drink now to 2035. (84/100)

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• RED AND BLACK commented:

  5/24/20, 3:49 AM - Have you ever thought to align your rating scale (mainly 80-95) to the one of this website/network (mainly 85-100) for easiness of comparison? It's not being smart, just taking stock of where you are

• Jammy Wine commented:

  5/24/20, 4:15 AM - Good question. I think a lot of the scores on cellartracker have been over-inflated, and a 90pts wine doesn't necessary mean it's a great wine (which is a shame). Also, if I may be blunt I find it slightly pointless to use 100point scale if most wines are rated 90pts+, it gets hard to differentiate the great wines from the very good wines.

• RED AND BLACK commented:

  5/24/20, 4:53 AM - Factually taking the points scale you use, what you write as your intention to do is not what you then do. If the population of this network assign 85-100 they use all this scale, while your greatest wines (which are some of the greatest of all times) achieve max 95, never more, as your scale is 80-95. When I read your review it makes perfect sense, but the rating is not aligned to the network and I know the comparison is just by simply adding 5 points to your score. I am not saying your philosophy is wrong, actually I think it is sensible, I am just saying something like: if you drive in Formula 1 then you drive an F1 car, not a motorbike. It is alignment to context of where you operate. Your scale is on avg as large as the one used in this network, just 5 points lower

• thierrynz commented:

  5/24/20, 11:21 PM - Nice and useful comments. The points you make are clear and very informative.Thanks for that.
  
  The score adds nothing to your comments (I do not use scores myself) and the 84 points suggests that you've got your own scale which will certainly puzzle others.

• RED AND BLACK commented:

  5/25/20, 3:02 AM - Agree as said the review is great, the score however is out of context and quite confusing vs CT network band. It is not helpful to use 80-95 instead of 85-100 on avg as all other 500k plus users do. The scale would make sense if the max rating would not be 95 but 100 for the very best wines tasted but that is not the case so it is just applied confusingly. Nothing personal, I just want to make a point to help others, it is not the first comment on the rating scale

• Jammy Wine commented:

  5/25/20, 3:37 AM - Thanks both. Yes I can see how my lower score might confuse some people, but I won't change this to to a 89pts per say, or my rating for DRC La Tache will be 103pts etc. I admit I am a tough reviewer and I am only doing this so people who care can easily differentiate the best wines from the great wines from my ratings. Thank you.

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