Well...chacun a son gout I guess - sure the French traditional blends can be wonderful. And they can be utter plonk. Same goes for every 100% varietal, including merlot and cab franc. They are just different - like each of us. Enjoying wine has little to do with the refinement of one's palate so much as individual taste, and nobody's taste is "wrong." It's theirs and theirs alone; sneering at it or assuming a wine drinker enjoys a specific type of wine because it is "chic" or "trendy," or that they somehow have a "wrong" (i.e., inferior) palate represents the height of ignorance.