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A wine group I'm in does monthly dinners where Eric Asimov(NYTimes wine columnist) chooses the wines to taste. I have been selected to write up our feelings on the wines we taste and put them in the comments section of that column.  Last month White Bordeaux was the wine selection.
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).

My Chablis wine review for the NYTimes

Eric Asimov does a monthly column where he suggests a wine style and asks readers to write in their comments.

Your Next Lesson: Chablis

My writeup:
  Because this month was a white wine we didn't have the standard argument over whether the wine was wine-colored enough. The flavor was agreed to be wine, although we did get pear and mango suggestions, and someone throwing in grapefruit.  Our Stalinistic leader tried to  enforce the no red wine rule for extra bottles being brought in. A revolution was started anyway with a bottle of red and two bottles of Ratafia  Our host brought 4 bottles, the rest of the crew brought 7 bottles. Our best was 14 bottles the night we did beaujolais. Anything for an excuse to get together and drink wine.

The food was our standard potluck; appetizers, veggie dishes and pies. The quiche was wonderful.
 The outdoor deck was wonderful with fireflies entertaining us at dusk. A few tried looking for glowworms in the grass but were unsuccessful due to the inability to get down low enough without toppling.
  One participant tried to impress us with this description of the first bottle. It was flowery with a triangular aftertaste that lazered the taste buds with the creaminess of  peach melba although it still was not intellectually satisfying. I came back with, it was band-aid colored and flavored and not Teenage  Mutant Ninja Turtle ones.The box Chablis wine from 2011 was smelled and dumped. Even our non-discriminating tastes were offended. All in all a very good evening of wine food and friends.