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A tool to combine vintage chart ratings into a consensus ranking of the vintages

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The tool: This tools makes use of a rank aggregation method to combine a collection of vintage charts for a region into a ranking of the vintages that represents the consensus of the input vintage charts.

an example for the champagne region
(click in the picture to enlarge):
Ver 02.1 (January 2012)
tool_ver_02.2.zip
corrected an error on dealing with years with no scores given.
it now has a weight p [0,1] for ties.
Ver 02  (December 2011) tool_ver_02.zip it now keeps all best tied solutions in the results files.
results file is renamed in order to not overwrite previous files.
additional stats are stored in the results file that can be use to sort tied solutions.
Ver 01  tool_ver_01.zip (needs JRE)
to run the examples place all files in the same directory, set the desired settings in the config.txt file and run the following command:
c:\ java JLB_combine_vintage_charts
Data files for experiments used in the JWE paper  data_files.zip

Consensus ranking for Burgundy Red vintages



useful links:
Vintage charts Wine related sites in Portuguese Wine related sites in English
Wine Spectator ABC dos vinhos Cellar tracker
Decanter ADVID - Associação para o Desenvolvimento da Viticultura Duriense Jancis Robinson
Wine Advocate (Robert Parker) AEVP - Associação das Empresas de Vinho do Porto The vintage port site
Wine enthusiast  (chart) infovini ViniPortugal
Vintages IVDP - Instituto dos Vinhos do Douro e Porto Wine.com - Wine ratings explained
Michael Broadbent's Pocket Vintage Wine Companion IVV - Instituto da Vinha e do Vinho
The Sotheby's Wine Encyclopedia Vinho do Porto Vintage
Addy Bassin's MacArthur Beverages

Berry Bros. & Rudd

cellarnotes.net

De Long

SAQ.com

WineOnline