Scores on wine apps are rubbish

Wine scores on apps are a lie because they can't possibly work. But people love them because our psychology craves them.

Years ago the wine writer Hugh Johnson was asked why he didn’t score his wines like other critics. His response: “how could I score my friends?”

Those were the good old days. When the only people who scored wines were American critics scoring collectible wines. Disappointingly this noisome practice soon spread. Soon even sensible Europeans took up the pr…