Conscious Quote by Jamie Goode

Scores do not reveal the most important facts about a wine. The written commentary (tasting notes) that accompanies the ratings is a better source…

— Robert M. Parker, Jr

I don't go by the ratings. I buy wine that tastes good. Statistically, anybody's ability to predict what will be a good wine a…

— Richard Thaler

“Every appraisal of a wine is subjective and beyond the technical qualities which are provided by experts about a specific wine overall, what is…

— Miro Popic

Critics have done the wine industry a lot of good overall.

— Robert Mondavi

No scoring system is perfect, but a system that provides for flexibility in scores, if applied by the same taster without prejudice, can quantify…

— Robert M. Parker, Jr

Researchers who examined the voting records of wine judges found that 90 percent of the time they give inconsistent ratings to a particular wine…

— Nathan Myhrvold

A writer should give direct certainty; explanations are so much water poured into the wine.

— Virginia Woolf

Wine is similar to music in that it's a purely experiential realm, and it's a purely subjective practice. That's sort of the funny thing…

— Mike D

One of the most insidious myths in American wine culture is that a wine is good if you like it. Liking a wine has…

— Karen MacNeil

“Good wines are produced in small quantities. It is a matter of time and attention and picking only the best grapes. Today they get…

— John Hillaby

Wine is not just an object of pleasure, but an object of knowledge; and the pleasure depends on the knowledge.

— Roger Scruton

The wine itself has aesthetic value; but what it is for a wine to have aesthetic value cannot be understood without making reference to…

— Tim Crane