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Old Mar 25, 2018 | 11:22 pm
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Originally Posted by 1P
See, this is exactly the kind of thing that puts off people who don't know about wine, First of all, it's pretentious and full of jargon. Secondly, everyone tastes differently. One of the most annoying things is to visit a winery and being told what you're going to taste in a particular wine. No, as a matter of fact I'm not.

People try to find all kinds of similes for the flavours they taste, instead of tasting the actual grapes and the differences between them. Yes, some wines do have certain prominent flavours that may remind you of a fruit or something else, but a lot of the flowery flummery that accompanies it is just that. I've been a wine connoisseur for 54 years now, and I'd love a moratorium on the kind of language evidenced here. It's unnecessary, self-indulgent, and actually often misleading.

Sorry!
It was a party game and I pulled the notes directly from the winemakers...not sure what else I could have done
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