Comments on: Commitment to the Vine

By: Evan Hansen

Evan Hansen — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 14:33:52 +0000

I can appreciate that very practical consumer approach, but it’s not JUST about buying and drinking wine for a lot of people. A lot of folks enjoy using wine as a way to learn more about a culture or a cuisine or so on. And you have to take a cultural and sometimes geographical approach in order to do that. It also helps answer questions like “Why does this wine taste this way?” and “What might I eat with this?” and “What’s a fair market value for this?” and “Might this wine improve with age?”

There’s definitely a time and a place for simply saying, “I like wines that taste like X, so give me a different/new wine that tastes like X,” but I think there’s a lot of validity to approaching wine more holistically.

By: Gengzai

Gengzai — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 19:27:11 +0000

Descriptions should be cirpamosons to flavors, aromas, color and body. To define a wine by region or time period only perpetuates the confusion and myth of elitism that many, but not all, wine snobs hide behind when they don’t really know that they are talking about. The bottom line for me: drink what you like and make note of why you like it. Then you can compare fairly it to any wine from any where.

By: noëlle

noëlle — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 19:02:56 +0000

Excellent writing as always, Evan, and I am kicking myself even harder at having to turn down that last tasting!