About Champagne Ratings

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Champagne Gallery members are welcome to rate Champagnes and share their experience with others.

We currently use the 100 point system and hope we can guide you in your score.

96-100 points: an extraordinary wine that shows true greatness. They are rare, but well worth seeking out and worthy of your attention
90-95 points: a great wine and a classic example of its type.
86-89 points: Very good wine that is well made, and a pleasure to drink
80-85 points: Good wine, cleanly made but perhaps a little simple. Commercial quality
76-79 points: Average wine –†acceptable at best
70-75 points: faulty wine , and not worthy of consideration

When judging and scoring Champagne a number of quality criteria should be considered.

Balance.: Where all a wines components are in complete harmony and nothing is overdone i.e. overly acidic, heavy dosage making the wine cloying, heavy handed oak usage
Length: Always a good indicator of quality. Does the flavour remain on the palate and linger? Or does it disappear once it has been swallowed?
Intensity: Not to be confused with weight. This is about the clarity and purity of fruit
Complexity: what is sought in all great wine, an expression of place and time, that can not be replicated anywhere else; Return to Members area.

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