Welcome to Winespider

Winespider is the wine evaluation system developed by Nick Chlebnikowski which has resulted from a mistrust of the current wine evaluation systems. Winespider is a simple, transparent system. Observations are reproducable thereby avoiding guess work. This is one of very few systems where you can see how and why a wine's rating was reached.

Since the public launch in 2008, the Winespider system has attracted vistors from all corners of the globe. Recently, Domenic Cicchetti, a Senior Research Scientist and Biostatistician at Yale University, Connecticut together with his brother Arnold, were researching wine rating scales, and assessing their utility for producers, consumers and oenologic researchers. The final product of their research was published in the International Journal of Wine Research, and featured seven different wine rating systems, including Winespider. You can download the article in .pdf format to read yourself by clicking here.