🍷 Wine rating

Wine rating is the scoring of a wine with points after tasting. The OIV standard for international wine competitions (Resolution OIV-OENO 671A-2025, which replaced OIV/CONCOURS 332A/2009) shows how an international intergovernmental body organises it.

Each juror fills in a score sheet. The sheet in Annex 3.2 totals 100 points: visual aspect 10 (limpidity 5, colour and nuances 5), smell 30 (purity, olfactory intensity and olfactory complexity, 10 each), taste 40 (purity, intensity of flavours, structure and complexity, persistence, 10 each) and overall impression 20 (balance and harmony, general appreciation, 10 each). The sheet also has a field for defects.

A sample's score is the average of the jurors' scores. Scores that differ from the average by more than seven points are recommended to be eliminated, and jurors must be told in advance which method is used. If at least two jurors mark a sample as eliminated for a major defect, it cannot receive an award from that jury.

Awards: grand gold requires at least 93 points, gold at least 89 and silver at least 85; the bronze medal was removed. The medals awarded must not exceed 30% of the samples presented. A jury has at least five jurors, seven recommended; national representatives should not exceed half of it, at least one oenologist is present, and an absolute majority of jurors must not come from a single country. Samples are anonymous: bottles are hidden in packaging, and jurors must never know the identity of the samples.