Saturday, January 01, 2005
The GPCI concept
The idea is simple: GPCi takes the highly rated wines by Winespectator, Robert Parker Jr., Decanter, Wine Access and others (unless indicated differently, all reviews quoted are from http://www.vintages.com/) and provide recommendations on wines either that have a good price for the quality (QPR) and/or wines that have the lowest ratio between their cost and their cellaring potential.
For example, two wines got 90 /100 by Parker. Wine A costs $20 and can be cellared for 5 years while wine B costs $30 and can be cellared for 10 years. Which wine will you buy? GPCI will recommend you buy wine B because it has a lower cost to cellaring potential ratio i.e. $20 / 5 years > $30 /10 years. You’ll pay LESS for every cellaring year for wine B - $3 per cellaring year vs. $4 per cellaring year. This ratio is the GPCi.
In general, I'll be looking for the highly rated wines that will result a GPCi no-higher-than 3.5.
I know, I know, it sounds too scientific... but don't take it too seriously; it's just another quantifying guide/method to help us navigate in this big wine ocean...
For example, two wines got 90 /100 by Parker. Wine A costs $20 and can be cellared for 5 years while wine B costs $30 and can be cellared for 10 years. Which wine will you buy? GPCI will recommend you buy wine B because it has a lower cost to cellaring potential ratio i.e. $20 / 5 years > $30 /10 years. You’ll pay LESS for every cellaring year for wine B - $3 per cellaring year vs. $4 per cellaring year. This ratio is the GPCi.
In general, I'll be looking for the highly rated wines that will result a GPCi no-higher-than 3.5.
I know, I know, it sounds too scientific... but don't take it too seriously; it's just another quantifying guide/method to help us navigate in this big wine ocean...
