The importance of scores to those buying and selling wine is understandable but regrettable.
In the years around the turn of the century when demand for young bordeaux offered en primeur (meaning long before it was even bottled) was red hot, these numbers helped impatient buyers make decisions. And they were especially helpful to those whose native language wasn’t English, the language of most tasting notes.
Today, that demand is not red hot but almost frigid (we’ll see what happens to the Bordeaux 2025 en primeur campaign later this month) and scores seem rather old-fashioned and questionable, especially when they are applied to cask samples that may not even represent the final blend.
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