All wines are rated as follows:

**

An exceptional wine. Buy it now and either tell all your friends about it or keep it very, very secret, depending on your personality and availability.

*

An excellent wine. Convince a friend to buy some and share it with you.

+

A good wine. Worth drinking. If it represents a particular value I will list it as Recommended.
.

A decent wine. Drink it if you must.

–

A flawed wine. Refuse this wine if served.

This is a deliberate departure from the popular, but somewhat harmful, 100 point system. For you addicts out there, the (rough) correspondence to the 100 point system is: ** (92-100); * (89-91); + (86-88); . (80-85); – (< 79).