RATING
Catavino only recommends wines that we stand behind. Wines we think you should taste. Therefore, rather than using the purple dot or numerical system, we’ve changed to a “recommended” system based on the following:

If a full note is on our site, it is considered “Recommended“.

In special cases, we’ll include notes that state, “Seek this wine out” or “Exceptional“. These indications are only used when a wine goes above and beyond our expectations for it’s style.

From time to time, we’ll include notes on wines that are “interesting” but not really worth seeking out. In these cases, the wines will have a reason to be mentioned, either because they are made from a “lost grape variety” or fit a “unique style”.

Once a month, we typically participate in Wine Blog Wednesday, and will always include our tasting note regardless if we enjoyed the wine. However, we’ll always be clear in our review if we recommend this wine.

Notes of ours on Social Tasting Note sites like Addega WILL NOT always be recommended on Catavino. For our personal growth, we attempt to take notes on every wine we try, using these sites for recording our tasting history. Therefore, we can always include the bad and the good. We believe that by freely sharing our notes and not charging for them we are in the end helping to grow the amount of information on the web about Iberian wines.