Below are some brief explanations of the BlueWine appreciation notes and price indicators. This noting scheme simply attempts to verbalize what is a largely subjective evaluation.

Although colour is taken into account it will usually only truly weigh in the appreciation if the wine is hazy. Indeed, a deep or light colour does not say very much about whether a wine is good; different wines may have different depths of colour but all be excellent. The main factors upon which the wines are judged are taste, texture, finish and, of course, price.
 

The kind of wine that can give you shivers and that you will probably always remember. Usually very different from what you usually drink, elegant, silky, exotic, well balanced, a wine with distinctive character.
 

A wine with an impressive bouquet of aromas, well-balanced taste and texture, a nice finish, although not quite exceptional.
 

A wine that is pleasant to drink overall but which lacks aromas, a little elegance and smoothness, something distinctive, or a wine that may be a little off balance in the mouth (for instance too tannic, dry) or on the finish.
 

A wine that has no faults per se but offers nothing exceptional, usually a little bland and thin, although not poor, it is a wine that one rarely buys again.
 

A wine with faults; thin and tasteless (similar to coloured water) or a wine that smells and tastes strongly of artificial flavouring, vulgar or not worth making nor worth drinking.