ChangeMe
Grape Picker
Posts:8
 | | 12/14/2004 1:24 AM |
| | Ok, I see QPR used on forums and have no idea what it is. | | | |
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Budman
Master of Wine
Posts:11879
| | 12/14/2004 1:26 AM |
| Let the chiming in begin!
Quality to Price Ratio.
I'll let people a lot smarter than me explain it in detail. | | | |
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Budman
Master of Wine
Posts:11879
| | 12/14/2004 1:27 AM |
| By the way, welcome to VC, eddie. Make yourself comfortable!  | | | |
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Bob Bressler
Napa Valley
Wine Lover
Posts:4864
| | 12/14/2004 1:38 AM |
| | In theory, a bottle of '59 Lafite selling for $500 would be an incredible QPR wine. However, no one seems to use it that way. It has become a metric for low priced wines with reasonable quality. | | | |
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NobleRot
Grape Puncher
Posts:720
| | 12/14/2004 1:52 AM |
| welcome, eddie! you're in good hands here!  | | | |
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love_cab_chard
Master of Wine
Posts:12501
| | 12/14/2004 2:00 AM |
| What budman posted, example:
Let's say you buy & drink ~$13.00 bottle that you really enjoy (i.e. 03 Catena Chard). You rate it (on your scale) an ~87.
Then, you buy a 99 Del Dotto Giavanni ~$60.00, & you rate it an 83 (as I did).
The 03 Catena Chard is a great QPR.
The 99 Del Dotto Giavanni(sp?) is a bad QPR. Made me want to cry, actually. | | | |
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ChangeMe
Grape Picker
Posts:8
| | 12/14/2004 2:25 AM |
| | Aha, now I get it. Thanks and I look forward to the board. | | | |
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ChangeMe
Master of Wine
Posts:12891
| | 12/14/2004 2:43 AM |
| Quote:
I'll let people a lot smarter than me explain it in detail.
shouldn't be to hard to find people who fit that bill
welcome to vc eddie  | | | |
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dbw4
Grape Puncher
Posts:902
| | 12/14/2004 2:57 AM |
| QPR = "I 'm a genius!"
DBW
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Illinicellar
Grape Sorter
Posts:348
| | 12/14/2004 3:23 AM |
| | LOL DBW! Welcome Eddie! | | | |
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Dave Tong
Santa Clara, CA
Barrel Filler
Posts:1335
| | 12/14/2004 5:10 AM |
| Quote:
Ok, I see QPR used on forums and have no idea what it is.
Queen's Park Rangers FC.
Oh, you meant *wine* forums. | |
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David Sullivan
Barrel Sampler
Posts:2276
| | 12/14/2004 5:10 AM |
| | Welcome Eddie - post often! | | | |
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Rothko
Palm Beach
Wine Thief
Posts:2875
| | 12/14/2004 2:50 PM |
| | Welcome Eddie! | | | |
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Al HooKoo
Las Vegas, NV
Barrel Filler
Posts:1356
| | 12/14/2004 3:28 PM |
| | Welcome Eddie! | | | |
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ChangeMe
Grape Stomper
Posts:199
| | 12/14/2004 4:18 PM |
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welcome
Eddie | | | |
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David Niederauer
Los Gatos, CA
Master Sommelier
Posts:15756
| | 12/15/2004 2:17 AM |
| Take the retail price of a wine you want to purchase.
Divide that price by the average retail price of an LGQ wine.
This equals the QPR.
It is somewhat easier to just look at the price compared to how you enjoy the wine (duh). If it is cheap and tastes good it is a good QPR. If it isn't... you should never ever ever buy a wine that is not a good QPR 
LGQ = like goods and quality. | | | |
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Pool Boy
Laurl, MD (DC suburb)
Master of Wine
Posts:13711
| | 12/15/2004 2:16 PM |
| Welcome eddie!
QPR is a relative term. But generally equates in to how good a wine is versus its price. But you can't really formulaicly apply a rule to come up with a number that a given wine could espouse to be its QPR rating. An example--
$10 bottle of wine, rates a 90 one could say has a QPR rating of 9 (rating divided by price, let's say). While a $30 bottle of wine that rates a 90 would only rate a QPR rating of 3. Now, if you can find a $10 bottle you rate a 90, you'd certainly want to load up. But that doesn't mean the $30 bottle of wine is 3 times worse a buy. It all depends.
Taken to the extreme, if you find a bottle that costs $500 and rates a perfect 100, it would only have a QPR rating of 0.2. But it is still a perfect bottle of wine in your mind. It might be rare or highly allocated. It might be worth it to you to experience that. | |
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Joseph Bembry
Wine Lover
Posts:4876
| | 12/16/2004 12:35 PM |
| tj, I have never heard of such a system as you are describing. Actually coming up with a .2 QPR number.
To me, QPR is simply a bottle of wine that drinks like one that is much more expensive vis a vis its peer group.
jb | | | |
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KillerB
Barrel Racker
Posts:1533
| | 12/16/2004 1:24 PM |
| Damn you Dave - that's my gag.
I reckon you could put QPR on a log scale and come up with a number. It would be meaningless of course. AND it is not a ****ing Ratio. Whatever is wrong with the term Value for Money(VFM)? | | | |
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Pool Boy
Laurl, MD (DC suburb)
Master of Wine
Posts:13711
| | 12/16/2004 3:02 PM |
| | I totally agree that QPR shouldn't be drilled down to a stooopid ratio or rating. It's what jb said, basically... | |
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