Seeking Thoughts on 1975 Bordeaux

Now I'm trying to figure out what it was she didn't like. California merlot? Texas hybrids (Eden is a sneaky one)? Teinturier grapes from Malta?
 
originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
Now I'm trying to figure out what it was she didn't like. California merlot? Texas hybrids (Eden is a sneaky one)? Teinturier grapes from Malta?
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What she didn't like? Everyfuckingthing. French Merlot, West Coast Merlot, West Coast Cabernet Sauvignon, younger Bordeaux, Zinfandel/Primitivo, really no Pinot (French or Oregon), Syrah, Sangiovese, Cabernet Franc, southern Rhone blends, Mourvedre/Monastrell on its own, Grenache on its own. Aussie anything. South American anything. South African Cabernet. I even tried her on Pinotage, which I don't even like. She'd drink sweet whites, but if I drank it and it was red, she was out. I was banging my head against the wall. To paraphrase George Thorogood, "I drank alone." '75 Lafite and the penny finally dropped. She still won't drink dry whites, and now I have to find the key that opens that lock.

She's come around on so much that she professed to dislike: Pinot, Tempranillo, Merlot, Sangiovese, Loire Cab Franc, blah, blah, blah. She didn't like Gamay. WTF? Life is so much better now.

Texas hybrids. Are they as bad as Midwest hybrids?
 
originally posted by Ken Schramm:
originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
Now I'm trying to figure out what it was she didn't like. California merlot? Texas hybrids (Eden is a sneaky one)? Teinturier grapes from Malta?
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What she didn't like? Everyfuckingthing. French Merlot, West Coast Merlot, West Coast Cabernet Sauvignon, younger Bordeaux, Zinfandel/Primitivo, really no Pinot (French or Oregon), Syrah, Sangiovese, Cabernet Franc, southern Rhone blends, Mourvedre/Monastrell on its own, Grenache on its own. Aussie anything. South American anything. South African Cabernet. I even tried her on Pinotage, which I don't even like. She'd drink sweet whites, but if I drank it and it was red, she was out. I was banging my head against the wall. To paraphrase George Thorogood, "I drank alone." '75 Lafite and the penny finally dropped. She still won't drink dry whites, and now I have to find the key that opens that lock.

She's come around on so much that she professed to dislike: Pinot, Tempranillo, Merlot, Sangiovese, Loire Cab Franc, blah, blah, blah. She didn't like Gamay. WTF? Life is so much better now.

Texas hybrids. Are they as bad as Midwest hybrids?
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Speaking of Texas hybrids, Herbamont is getting tons of publicity in the second season of Drops of God, though reincarnated and transformed as a forbidden grape in Georgia.
 
originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
Now I'm trying to figure out what it was she didn't like. California merlot? Texas hybrids (Eden is a sneaky one)? Teinturier grapes from Malta?
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you forgot the gang of four
 
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