I never really gave much thought to a wine ranking system before.
This is because what I think is a good wine might be a terrible wine to someone else. But as time went on, I found that I had a nose for good wines and people often asked me, “What do you think of such-in-such wine.” Sure, I was flattered. But when I told people I thought such-in-such wine was pretty good and many agreed with me, I got to thinking, that maybe I should have some sort of ranking of the wines I tasted. This was also true when I told someone that a particular wine was not worth buying, and they bought it anyway. Some time later, they would remark that I was correct about the wine I said to avoid – that it was terrible.

I never got A’s on my report card until I went to college. High school was mostly C’s and D’s. And since I never got anything higher than a C in high school, I decided my ranking system would consist of only A’s.

I can give a wine five A’s. You’ll note under the title are the five A’s. I count Above Average as one A. Each A has the same rank or weight. A one A wine will most likely be Above Average. But I an not going to bother giving a wine one A; most will be a minimum of two A’s, and there will be many three A wines.