Wine Ratings

by John McChesney

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Morning Edition, July 8, 2003 · NPR's John McChesney reports that wine ratings may be more subjective than you think. The two most influential wine magazines use a 100-point scale to evaluate wines, and these numbers often end up in retail stores on pieces of paper -- called shelf talkers -- below each bottle of wine. But the wines from a particular region might be rated by only one magazine editor.

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