Label-sighted assessment

Since Platter’s is primarily a wine guide, and not a wine competition, our expert tasters initially assess the wines sighted, to assist learning as much as possible about the intent of the producer and the wine’s backstory, as well as vital details such as site and climate. Then, when it comes to the Five Star tasting, we shift to a blind tasting format as we are then comparing wines against each other within categories for the ultimate accolade.

Blind tasting

Wines scored 93 points and up in the primary (sighted) tasting round are re-tasted in a Five Star taste-off where small panels of experts assess all these wines blind to find the Five Star laureates. The highest-rated wines have therefore undergone multiple rounds of stringent tasting and are truly exceptional.