In May 2020, I wanted to drive home the need for QPR (Quality-to-Price Ratio) wines. So I set out to create what I thought a QPR metric should be! Gone were arbitrary price ranges and such. So many people arbitrarily define 40 dollars as too much or too little for a given wine. My only question is, on what basis did you come to this decision? Your gut, your price limit, your wife, your accountant? I knew we needed a REAL, quantitative, objective approach to building a QPR score.

So I let the market determine the QPR price range. I did this by grouping the wines by type (white, red, rosé, sparkling, and dessert) and then further refining the grouping by ageability within white and red wines. This gave me the following groups:

• Drink “soon” White Wine (Simple whites)
• Rose Wine (always drink soon)
• Drink “soon” Red Wine (Simple reds)
• Mid-range aging Reds (4 to 11 years)
• High-end Red wines (11 and more years)
• High-end White wines (7 and more years)
• Sparkling Wine (No need here for extra differentiation)
• Dessert Wine

I then made the mistake of trying to create an Orange wine range/group – that was a HUGE mistake. Again, the wines themselves were not the issue; the issue was trying to group such a small sample set into a single group. So, I moved them into white wines.

Throughout the year, I posted many QPR posts for almost all of the main categories. I will continue down this road until I find a better way to categorize and track wines that are QPR WINNERS. Regarding the QPR WINNERS score, the secondary QPR score was a 2.1 revision to my QPR score, which is explained in this post. All the wines listed here are QPR WINNERS from my tastings in 2025.

Let us discuss the approach

I have heard from a few of you. I do not understand your QPR (Quality-to-Price Ratio) scoring. So, let us take another shot at this! Every time a customer comes into a shop or goes online to buy kosher wine, they have a choice of a few thousand wines online or many hundreds in a store. The question is, how does a buyer differentiate one wine from the next?