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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (890)	11/17/2009 7:07:43 PM
From: SG	1 Recommendation Read Replies (3) of 1277

A note about my "Grand Tasting." It was certainly much more enjoyable this year with all of your suggestions. In fact, it was amusing to go to a table and ask for a wine and be looked at with (underserved) respect at picking out the best one there. However...after tasting many of your suggestions, it became apparent to me that I was a poseur, trying wines that, somehow, did not hit my palate as well as lesser priced wines. There was a study a while back showing that wine savants preferred different wines than duffers. I'm afraid it would take me bottles of the good stuff to develop a taste and then, I'd be unable to buy them! Maybe I'm just used to those awful additives in those fruity Australian wines. The only exception, I think is with the cabs. I can tell a $10. cab from a 40. cab (I think the Lafite was a cab, right?) and they had some good ones there. I ended the tasting with a rather generous pour of Bollinger Brut; the young guy there knew we were all just drinking it for the hell of it and just gave us a good glass of champagne. And I didn't knock over any bottles this year. SG

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