MASTER of WINE Rates Affordable CELLAR TRACKER Favorites

Master of Wine tastes wines from Cellar Tracker to find out whether their ratings are useful.

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I have used this glass in this Video: RIEDEL Performance Riesling
I have tasted the following wines in this Video:
Piper Heidsieck Champagner Brut France – 42 US$
2019 Kumeu River Estate Chardonnay New Zealand – 30 US$
2019 La Crema Chardonnay Sonoma Coast USA – 20 US$
2020 Kim Crawford Sauvignon Blanc Marlborough New Zealand – 16 US$
2012 La Rioja Alta Vina Ardanza Reserva Rioja Spain – 36 US$
2016 Château Cantemerle Bordeaux France – 40 US$
2018 Fontodi Chianti Classico Italy – 40 US$

The 100 Point Scoring System (from www.robertparker.com):
96-100: An extraordinary wine of profound and complex character displaying all the attributes expected of a classic wine of its variety. Wines of this caliber are worth a special effort to find, purchase and consume.
90 - 95: An outstanding wine of exceptional complexity and character. In short, these are terrific wines.
80 - 89: A barely above average to very good wine displaying various degrees of finesse and flavor as well as character with no noticeable flaws.
70 - 79: An average wine with little distinction except that it is a soundly made. In essence, a straightforward, innocuous wine.
60 - 69: A below average wine containing noticeable deficiencies, such as excessive acidity and/or tannin, an absence of flavor or possibly dirty aromas or flavors.
50 - 59: A wine deemed to be unacceptable.

Cellar Tracker was created in March 2003 by Eric LeVine, whose name predestined him to get into the wine business. He was working for Microsoft at that time and wanted to program a tool to keep track of his wine collection. He soon realized that others would like to use his tool too and it became a big success. Today it is – according to Cellar Tracker - used by hundreds of thousands of users and contains more than 9 million tasting notes.

I found out that there is a ranking of the people with the most tasting notes and number one at this moment is rjonwine who has written close to 48,000 tasting notes since he first signed up in 2004 – which is pretty impressive. Users can write tasting notes, indicate whether they like a wine or whether it is flawed, and then rate it according to the 100-point system.

Out of all the tasting notes that are entered by its users Cellar Tracker creates an average score that you can use to find new, interesting wines. I do not use Cellar Tracker much, but I find it pretty useful as the users tend to be real wine geeks and therefore taste a lot of different wines and I also prefer scores in the 100 points system, just because I also score that way and therefore find it easier to compare scores.

Today I want to find out though whether the cellar tracker scores are useful for finding great wine and I asked Leon to select some highly rated but affordable wines that you should be able to get in most countries so that you can taste along if you want …