Six Atmospheres | Champagne & Sparkling Wine

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If these scores could talk

If these scores could talk

How to read the unwritten rules (and non-linearities) of wine scoring

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Jun 06, 2025
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Have a look at a piano keyboard:

It would be easy to assume that all the white notes are musically equidistant; that each time you ascend, from C to D, from D to E, and from E to F, you’re ascending the same musical distance.

In truth the musical distance - that is to say the ratio between frequencies, or pitch - between E and F, or B and C (the two sets …

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