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Back in 1978 lawyer turned self-employed wine critic, Robert M. Parker Jr., introduced the 100-point wine rating system to the world when he started his wine buying guide titled, The Wine Advocate. This system has since been adopted by critics and consumers everywhere, despite the fact that a rating system that draws a distinction between a cabernet scoring 90 and one receiving an 89 implies a precision of the senses that even many wine critics agree that human beings do not possess. Unfortunately, that 1-point difference between an 89 and 90, in a rating system that has no set standards, can still make or break a wine when marketing it to the masses.

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