- Wine Spectator : Score 0-100 (though with <75 rarely used)
- Jancis Robinson : Score 12-20
- Platter : Score 1-5
I've always felt uncomfortable giving absolute scores, preferring to rate in terms of poor, ok, good, verygood, excellent, or in shorthand:
- poor, ok, g, vg, ex
- g, g+, g/vg, vg-, vg
Any rating/scoring system is only useful if its meaning is clear. Translation from a score to a rating category such as "good" or "very good" is a start, but even then different people might use such terms differently. Personally, the categories I use have the following meaning:
- faulty: Believed to have a fault (or otherwise be extremely poor and would never buy)
- poor: Disliked, would definitely not buy
- ok: Acceptable drinking, but would not buy
- good: Enjoyable, will sometimes buy at good price
- very good: Very enjoyable, will buy
- excellent: Extremely enjoyable, keen to buy