Originally Posted by
slawecki
most seem to think each bottle is individually styled for that person. in fact, almost all wine(even a lot of "barrel select") are dumped into a large container, mixed, and the bottles filled. a 20,000 case wine is few thousand gallons. they did not hand make your bottle and kiss it goodnight.
Most? of whom? 20,000 case wines? Wow I rarely drink wine of which more than a few hundred cases is made. This is the supermarket wine shopper of whom you speak? I love to delve into the myriad vineyards in Sonoma and Napa for example and find wines which excite me and which I need to go to in order to buy.
Originally Posted by
flyboy60
The fact is, probably half the consumers wouldn't know a mild-to-moderately corked wine in any case. Because, for starters, they probably don't know what the wine SHOULD taste like, and also because the defect may simply manifest as a dull bottle with no nose to speak of, rather than a really stinky TCA aroma.
I am not sure that is a fact at all. Or perhaps not in the Bay Area where I grew up or in Tokyo where I live now. But I do agree a large number of people would not get it. TCA sensitivity varies so widely even for trained professionals that it is a highly subjective issue. The presence of the compound is not subjective but individual tolerances for it and responses to it are.
Originally Posted by
Surface Interval
I am a certified wine judge - not that this means much here . . . this post nails it!
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As stated, a systematic approach will largely negate the variation on individual palates as it seeks to judge a wine not so much on "is it good because I like it?" but more on is it good because it achieves a certain number of factors which wine professionals agree make a better wine. In the new world, specifically the US, and in the old world, often in the southern Rhone we see a lot of fruit bombs yes, but far less so in the rest of the world.
Originally Posted by
flyboy60
Some folks I socialize with think that when it comes to judging wine, I am certifiable.
Great post! In my case I substitute "consuming" for judging.
