BLIND Tasting Face-off with James SUCKLING - Do I agree with his ratings?

Support me on my PATREON:   / konstantinbaum   Follow me on ...:   / konstantinbaum_mw   Check out my website: https://baumselection.com/ I use this wine key: Laguiole en Aubrac Wine Key Ebony I have used this glass in this Video: Gabriel StandArt I have tasted the following wines in this Video: 2021 Fritz Haag Riesling QbA feinherb https://www.wine-searcher.com/find/fr... 2022 Ulisse Passerina Terre di Chieti https://www.wine-searcher.com/find/te... 2021 Zind Humbrecht Pinot Gris Rangen de Thann Clos Saint Urbain Grand Cru https://www.wine-searcher.com/find/do... 2020 Domaine Faiveley Gevrey Chambertin Les Cazetiers https://www.wine-searcher.com/find/do... The 100 Point Scoring System (from www.robertparker.com): 96-100: An extraordinary wine of profound and complex character displaying all the attributes expected of a classic wine of its variety. Wines of this caliber are worth a special effort to find, purchase and consume. 90 - 95: An outstanding wine of exceptional complexity and character. In short, these are terrific wines. 80 - 89: A barely above average to very good wine displaying various degrees of finesse and flavor as well as character with no noticeable flaws. 70 - 79: An average wine with little distinction except that it is soundly made. In essence, a straightforward, innocuous wine. 60 - 69: A below-average wine containing noticeable deficiencies, such as excessive acidity and/or tannin, an absence of flavor or possibly dirty aromas or flavors. 50 - 59: A wine deemed to be unacceptable. James Suckling has done it all. He started his career 40 years ago at Wine Spectator, established their European Bureau, and became one of their most influential tasters in the following decades. In 2010 he decided to go solo and launched Jamessuckling.com. At the core, the website is a database for his and his colleagues tasting notes. He also has a glass collection, a wine course, holds these big tasting events, has a wine bar in Hong Kong and he is certainly the most entrepreneurial wine critics … Suckling often gets criticized for inflating scores as he seems to give out higher scores than robertparker.com and vinous for example. On his website, he writes about his scores that: I rate using the 100-point scale. I’ve used this point system for nearly 40 years, and I still believe it’s the simplest way to rate wine. A wine we rate 90 points or more is outstanding (A). It’s a wine we want to drink a glass of and is an outstanding purchase. If we rate a wine 95 points or more (A+), it is a must-buy. I you can afford it, I would add … If we rate a wine less than 88 points, it might still be worth buying but proceed with caution. I certainly wouldn’t recommend spending your money on anything rated lower. There is quite a big difference in his approach as robertparker.com would still consider an 87-point wine “Good or Very good”. If you look closer at the ratings and compare them to Parker’s a clear pattern emerges. Robert Parkers starts scoring the bulk of the wines at 83 and Suckling starts at 86. The majority of Parker's scores are between 87 and 92 points – roughly two-thirds of the wines fall into that category. With Suckling two-thirds of the wines are scored between 90 and 93 points – a higher and narrower part of the 100-point scale. It also still blows my mind to see those numbers laid out like that as most critics really only seem very little of the scale. While assuming that both publications score similar or the same wines it seems pretty clear that Suckling's scores are two to four points above Parker's, which sometimes are one or two points above my scores.