Originally Posted by
bensyd
There's two tasting notes in my vocab; good and bad.
No argument there.
Care for a glass of Gallo to go with your individually wrapped slice of processed cheese?
Like separating the boys from the men.
Originally Posted by
Showbizguru
If I see one more tosser sniffing the bouquet of a wine and extolling its hidden qualities I'm going to throw my bottle opener at them. I drink wine with my mouth and not my nose.
The reason I swirl my wine is to allow it to open up. That works for $10 and $100 wine. If you've ever smelled a really good wine, it sets you up for the taste that will follow.
Recently I drank a $18 bottle of Washington red. The chocolate taste really stood out to those of us in the know, and those
non-wine geeks, at dinner. Truth be told it was barely acceptable (to me); but the non wine snobs thought they died and went to heaven.
Bottom line, to each his own.