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The rating system I use is the well-known 100 points system. Very important: My rating bases on the day I drunk the wine. So no potential rating or something else. I hate that. If you want to know about my appraisal of the potential, read the blog.

Also important: Everything above 79 points means that the wine is really worth to taste and to enjoy. These are good wines or better from my perspective. Today more and more the 90+ hysteria goes around. So consequently I should avoid ratings, but on the other side everybody wants to see this. Hm. Gordian knot.

So my scheme:
- 99-100: Best of the best.
- 96-98: Fantastic. Wines for the best days of your life.
- 93-95: Outstanding. Wines for very special moments.
- 90-92: Also outstanding, but you don't have to wait for the special moment
- 87-89: Very, very good wines
- 83-86: Very good wines
- 80:82: Good wines; still above average

Ratings below I will not publish. This would not be fair to the wines because it is only my view. This blog is to inspire and not to blame wines perhaps because only I do not like them.

Hope these ratings help,
HPJ

If you read this blog it's your fault – not mine. I'm not a wine expert. Just a person who likes to drink wine. Especially wine from California and preferably with friends who share my passion.

The idea for this blog arose during my wife's and my last California trip. With friends we visited the wonderful tasting room of Tricycle Wine Co. at Arnold Drive inside Cornestone Gardens in Sonoma. We had nice discussions about wine, the wine business and wine from California and Germany. During these discussions paired with the wonderful wines from the Molnar Family, Kazmer & Blaise and Obsidian Ridge – Carole: many thanks for your outstanding hospitality – this blog was born.

I write this blog in English – even if my English is improvable. Why in English? Because it is mainly for my friends in the US. I learned during my US trips mainly two wine related things:

- Even in the US lots of people don't know about the fantastic wines produced in this country at wonderful wineries by remarkable people

- The knowledge about German wine can be improved

So I will concentrate mainly on the following topics:
- Wineries in the US and in Germany
- Wine Tastings – especially of Californian and German wines
- Wine and Food – my special view

So enjoy it and again "Be warned!"

Peter Joeckel
Hoehenstrasse 19
75179 Pforzheim
Germany
eMail: wine@tpjoeckel.de

Source: Rose & Partner (www.rosepartner.de)

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