Normalizing Scores? Options

[hennlund]

I'm not really too keen on scoring wines, but I see that it has it's uses and wanted to start to add scores - at least when I have sufficient experience and references on a type of wine for a rating to make sense. To me, the 100 point scale is to "fine", so I want to use the 5 star one. Then my rating is normalized to the 100 point scale for community scoring, which is good. However, I wonder if the conversion gives a too high community score?

Example: I drank a very good Rheinhessen Riesling the other day. In my opinion it was good enough to be placed in the top fifth of the scale, so I gave it five stars. That is conversed into 100 points, which is far too high bearing in mind f. ex. Parker's description of the 100 point scale. Reducing my score to 4,5 gave a 95 point conversion. I still think the wine is a 5 star, though, but I don't want to be responsible for giving the wine a 100 point community score.

The way I think, a 5 star would correspond to the 90-100 point area, 4 stars 80-90 points etc (but I might be completely off the track...), and for over all normalizing purposes I would consider 95 points a reasonable conversion for a 5 star, 85 points for a 4 star etc.

Opinions?

[nycebo]

Use the 10 point scale.

[hennlund]

Use the 10 point scale.

Of course - good idea. Thanks!

[nycebo]

Of course - good idea. Thanks!

Anytime. The funny thing is that I spent ages mulling over which 'scale' to use myself and ended up going with the 100 point to maintain consistency with other raters. But, I generated my own custom scorecard that 'helps' me stay consistent with my own tastes and helps me to generates the score. It's a lot of fun tasting new, and old, wines now.