A wine thread? Interesting, but then you may attract all nature of wine snob and salami slicers. And it's very difficult to know apples and oranges of wine consumption.
I remember a long back and forth with Kollmnh about wine but really we were scarcely communicating at all. I like good tasting wine that can be bought by the case for less than $10/bottle; further I like full bodied wines that can stand up to spicy and ginger flavored food and not wilt. I almost never drink wine outside of meal time. For me, cab s, shiraz, Australian merlots, some Spanish and Portuguese wines, some South American wines. No pinot noir, no French burgundy, no white wine of any kind.
Kollmnh, however, likes to have a glass of high quality red in the afternoon (with water crackers, I suppose), and even entertains the occasional white wine. He found most of my wines too crude by half. He's willing to pay up for the experience; I always feel when I'm in the high $9 range (per case) that I'm already paying up. I actually bought some remaindered Australian Shiraz at $5.75/bottle and was very happy to find it ready to stand up to any kind of spicy Asian or Indian food at all.
Any way, once I figured out when he liked to drink and how, then his choices (but not his prices) began to make sense. I don't know if my choices and prices ever made sense.
Once while in grad school I met a British wine snob who was very happy to show me his wine collection (it was a closet in a crummy one bedroom apartment, complete with crying baby. As he gazed with obvious pride at the 30 or so bottles lying on their side in cardboard boxes behind the hems of his wife's winter coats, he said, "Oh really, I simply adore these burgundies. It's so hard to describe the flavor," he continued and motioned with his fingers at the front, side and back of his mouth, "the full bodied fruit flavor is not at all up front, but rather deeply in the back, rising, as it were, ever so graciously, deeply almost on the point of swallowing, you see."
"Really?"
"Yes, you do see, don't you? That deep fruit rising so deeply in the back, on the cusp of post delicto. D'you see what I mean?"
Well, what could I say?
"Well, of course, Ian, I see your point exactly. Independent and rebellious, but not quite seditious. Do you agree?"
"Yes, that's it exactly--" he replied and then stopped, realizing I was goofing on him. True story.
Caveat vinitus snobbus, which is anyone who speaks of oenology, imho. |
