How Does WineBlueBook Determine Value?
Its a simple formula. Wines are grouped by quality (the average score a wine receives from leading wine critics) and type (so, all 89 point Australian Shirazes are compared with each other). Using wine-searcher.com, which lists prices from over 8,100 retailers, the average retail price is determined for each wine in the group. To find the quality price ratio, its a simple matter of dividing each wines individual price by the average price for the whole group. If the average value = 100%, then anything below that represents a better value. Anything above, not so good. So, lower scores are better – just like golf. • Why Subscribe If the Informations Available to Anybody? Because each issue of WineBlueBook is the result of painstaking, time-consuming research that most folks simply dont have the timeor the patienceto comb through. Because youd rather be enjoying a glass of wine than wading through statistics. And because, as David Shaw wrote in his LA Times article on WineBlueBook, “the d
