Wine scores are not really very useful. They unfairly deprecate wines that score less than 90 points and don’t really help people to understand or enjoy wine more. Scores, divorced from stories and information about the people and places that produced the wine, are a disservice to consumers and, to some degree, unfair to the wine. A single bottle can taste different from one month to another, from a blind tasting to a synergistic “supporting player” at an agreeable meal with fr...