The Scores + Value section — the Rating tab of the Tasting Details card — is the note's conclusion: what the wine was worth, in points if you keep points, and in plainer terms if you don't. Like everything in the builder, all of it is optional; a note without a score is not an unfinished note.
The Point Scores
Curate accepts both of the wine world's common scales, and doesn't make you choose a camp:
20-point score — the scale of much formal and European practice, entered to two decimals.
100-point score — the scale of most published criticism, entered from 50 to 100.
Enter either, both, or neither. Curate records what you give it and never converts one scale into the other on your behalf.
The Two Questions
Two sliders capture the judgments that outlast any number, in the words you'd actually use:
Would Purchase Again — from Absolutely Not through Perhaps to Without Hesitation.
Would Recommend — from Only as a Warning through To Certain People to With Enthusiasm.
Years later, "would I buy this again" is usually the question you're really asking your library — these two answers keep it answerable.
VinValue
VinValue records what you think a standard 750 mL bottle should sell for at retail — your own valuation, in your currency, set apart from what the bottle happened to cost. A modest wine that drinks beautifully can carry a VinValue above its price; a trophy that underwhelmed can carry one below. Paired with the purchase price recorded in Tasting Context & Environment, it quietly builds a record of where your money finds its best glasses.
The Drink Window
Detail levels — Appears in Standard and Advanced notes.
The drink window is your call on the wine's arc: the year range in which you'd expect it to drink well, starting no earlier than its vintage. It's an opinion, not a prophecy — and revisiting old windows against later bottles is one of the quiet pleasures of a long tasting library.
Where This Fits
Scores and the two questions have Quick Selection popovers on the Rating tab; the full set lives in the Editor Panel. None of it feeds any public ranking — your scores are your own, shown publicly only as part of a review you've chosen to share. See Saving, Visibility & Guest Preview for how sharing works, and Your Tasting Library for sorting your library by what you thought of things.