“At entaste, we only write about wines that we like. We don’t just rate them – we categorize them.”

Our sommeliers have decided to use entaste wine rating system for the wines they taste. We, in entaste, feel that the standard and over-popular 0-100 system is not very useful for the wine lover, as wine quality is too subjective to be assigned a numerical rating with such a high degree of implied precision. Furthermore, wines that are works of art in its own way are too beautiful and complex to be reduced in this way to simple numbers, given by one person of a specific taste. So instead of exploring the amazing diversity of expression in the wine world, consumers blindly follow standards of ‘enological’ perfection of small number of individuals. We would like to change that.
entaste devised a simple 0-5 tastevins rating, where we will try to be as objective as possible, not rating so much our preferences but the quality of wine. The system is there for you, the wine lover, to serve to you as a reference in your future rating of wines. Every wine featured on our blog is the wine that we believe is worth mentioning, each one represents a style of a winemaker and the unique character of the individual terroir from where it comes… these wines are never really “better” than each other, but rather different, distinct and that is why there are category ratings.

Categories

• Special Occasion: Unique, wonderful or rare wine; enough to save for special moments or people
• Super Value: Exceptional buy; as good or better than wines costing significantly more
• Adventurer’s Choice: A wine from a new region, style or winemaker; something even jaded sommeliers find unique and exciting
• Party!: Reasonably priced, fun, high quality to appeal to a large audience
• Sit-Down Bottle: A seriously fine and complex wine to share with fellow connoisseurs
• Weekly Drinking: A wine to buy by the case; great value, great price, a good enough to enjoy over and over again
• Classic : A “banker”; the epitome of its class or ranking, region or country, grape or style
• Authentic : A wine that strongly express terroir — that “sense of place” unique to its vineyard source
• No Oak : For those who enjoy the taste of grapes or terroir rather than the taste of wood
• Organic/Biodynamic : Certified organic or biodynamic wine

Tastevins

5 All-time great; transcendent quality and stature rarely experienced in any wine lover’s life
4 Extraordinary; spellbinding wines that could be considered “great”
3 Exceptional; special features of outstanding or unique quality
2 Very good; notably above average for its region, grape or style
1 Average quality; enjoyable, but nothing really special
0 Below average; flawed, or poor value