How To Taste And Describe Wines
I am a great lover of wines but I’ve never had much time for the wine-tasting and collecting game. For me, wine is for drinking and enjoying. Taste is, after all, so subjective.
I’m not interested in the scores, points and medals that have been awarded to a particular wine or vineyard. I can never remember what are supposed to be the really good years for various wines and I even have trouble remembering the names of many wines that I really like. Perhaps I’m drinking a little too much? Rather than rely on the scores handed out by various Sunday newspapers I trust my local wine seller, who I have been patronising for over a decade, to make sound recommendations and he has never given me a duff recommendation.
Now he is a man who totally buys in to the whole slurp-spit and describe routine. He uses all of the flowery
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