Good info, CW [I don't know how to address you, by the way, with a signature
like that]. Thanks for posting the pointer.

"cwdjrxyz" in oups.com:
> . . . The panel found 2 outstanding ...13 very good to excellent (highly
> recommended), 106 good (recommended), 62 fair and 14 poor wines.

As a point of historical information, similar coarse but useful categories
were the standard of practice of US wine newsletters in the past, but were
displaced when the newer, "100-point" scales became popular in the 1980s.
(Strangely, 5-grade scales were popular,* 100-point scales were popular, but
the 20-point "Davis" scale, intermediate in resolution and heavily marketed
in the 1970s, never caught on.)

-- Max



* And remain so for other products, as in a longstanding US Dept. of
Agriculture meat-grade scale, in existence for decades with small
variations, such as Prime/Choice/Good/Utility/Pet.