Those are our principles about tasting, and a short explanation about the Scoring and Tasting procedures in The Wine Codex.

The Tastelogue

1. There is no aseptic, neutral, uncolor space to taste in The Wine Codex. The way we taste is the way we drink. Chatting with friends in the bar, or in a table in the middle of the garden at spring, enjoying a movie in winter at home. We taste the wine in a passionate, not scientific, way. We taste wine as consumers and for consumers.

2. As a informal tasting session, the Tasting Notes try to note the primary, clearly identifyable flavours, tastes and features of the wine, and no more. We don’t go deep to the abysm of the childhood memory smells or similar in this website. We try to define the most commonly and recognizable notes in order to help you to take decissions when you are in front of the bottle shelf in the store. Wine literature and poetry is for you and your friends.

3. We are not objective, but we are honest. We try to understand the wine, its vital course, the region when it was made. We don’t have interests in the industry, and nor we will have in the future. We are not maniatic nor obssesive with some brands.

4. The memory is the first weapon of the wine taster. We try to exercize memory to make comparisons, evaluate and level the quality of a wine.

5. Two 100 points scored wines can be very different between them. The top scoring depends on history, tradition, region, wine-making wisdom, innovation. An absolute scoring always is relative. We try to analyze all the factors to find a score.

6. Scores are only a trend. The best avaliation of wines is, always, your avaliation (mine, their avaliation). Wine passion is always personal, so take our scores as something like a whisper. The final opinion is always yours.