Not everyone's a fan of wine scores, but there's a way to use them

You have seen the little tags hanging from shelves in wine shops. They're often hand-drawn, in permanent marker, and sometimes they're bright, with a large, two-digit number and the name of a publication prominently displayed inside a jagged kind of exploding star. There might be multiple exclamation points, or several underlines, and that number will usually land somewhere in the 90s or high 80s. If the tag is not handmade, it might be an official shelf-hanger from a publication.

All of this is a product of the infamous wine-rating system that relies on the 100-point scale, and not