Last night was our monthly wine dinner again and boy did I get grief for being important enough for Eric Asimov to mention me by name. Autographs were asked for.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/05/dining/wine-school-assignment-white-bordeaux.html
My writeup to that wine was as follows. The quote in there was not mine, I just directly quoted one of the participants. I do not believe in the flowery language of most wine enthusiasts. Wine is binary. Would you buy this again? Yes/No? Would you drink this again? Yes/No? Is it wine colored? Yes/No? Is it wine flavored? Yes/No?
6 bottles of white Bordeaux awaited us, while waiting for all the members of the group to get there a cabernet sauvignon and Portuguese red were polished off amongst the 12 participants. The descriptions were mostly short, good color, nice nose, full mouth feel, oily, home permanent kits. Not a single bottle was emptied after pouring for the original taste. No seconds were requested. The best lines of the night were biting. 'Would the pope serve this wine? ' 'This will be the last white Bordeaux I drink for the rest of my life.' Summer is over, our next wine will be a red, even if Eric picks a white.
Well this month Eric Asimov responded to the comments in White Bordeaux tasting. I got insulted several times.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/16/dining/wine-school-white-bordeaux.html
By contrast, another reader, Dean Reinke of East Lansing, Mich., who tried six bottles of white Bordeaux (without specifying what they were) with fellow members of his tasting group, wrote, with decisive finality, “This will be the last white Bordeaux I drink for the rest of my life.”
Here at Wine School,
we understand both extremes (though I would urge Mr. Reinke to give
them another chance: one good bottle with dinner, sir, rather than
speed-tasting through a bunch of anonymous wines).
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