Ability Quote by Richard Thaler

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

— Robert Mondavi

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

“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

The critic is actually describing a conscious representation of their interaction with the wine, and therefore the score of rating is a property of…

— Jamie Goode

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

“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

Don't let anyone tell you what you ought to like... Some wines that some experts think are absolutely exquisite don't appeal to me at…

— John Cleese

“Because it’s hard for people to gauge quality by flavor, they tend to gauge it by price. That’s a mistake. Langstaff has evaluated wine…

— Mary Roach

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

Wines are like people. Some are perfect but boring, some are precocious but fail to live up to their promise, and some may be…

— Michael Broadbent

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

Essentially, wines are fermented grape juice, so I'm trying to make the point that the wine world is about scores and marketing and kind…

— Joe Bastianich