Vintage Generalizations

[Joe Dressner]

Of course they apply.

Not for every wine made in any given region. But a 2009 Patrimono from Antoine Arena is much different from his 2008, 2007 and 2006.

That's a vintage generalization based on the concrete not the vague conjectured.

Long live vintage generalization!

 

[SFJoe]

The doghead's only been here a week and we're baiting him already?

OK with me, of course.

 

[Bryan Garcia]

2009 Beaujolais: 97 points.

 

[Ned Hoey]

originally posted by Joe Dressner:
Vintage GeneralizationsOf course they apply.

Not for every wine made in any given region. But a 2009 Patrimono from Antoine Arena is much different from his 2008, 2007 and 2006.

That's a vintage generalization based on the concrete not the vague conjectured.

Long live vintage generalization!

(Head scratcher emoticon)

That example isn't a generalization about 2009, but another joke already got past me today so maybe...

 

[Brad Kane]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3GnWTy8Ebg.

 

[VLM]

originally posted by Joe Dressner:
Vintage GeneralizationsOf course they apply.

Not for every wine made in any given region. But a 2009 Patrimono from Antoine Arena is much different from his 2008, 2007 and 2006.

That's a vintage generalization based on the concrete not the vague conjectured.

Long live vintage generalization!

I won that argument years ago.

 

[Jeff Grossman]

originally posted by Joe Dressner:
That's a vintage generalization based on the concrete...

Do you have one for wines made in foudre?

 

[Sharon Bowman]

God, I am distracted. I read that as: Do you have one for wines made in the future?

 

[Levi Dalton]

Generalizing about the future is easier than for the past.

 

[Steven Spielmann]

I see at least five vintages of the century coming up in Bordeaux in the next ten years, for example.

 

[Cliff]

originally posted by Levi Dalton:
Generalizing about the future is easier than for the past.

Hmm, not for me.

 

[Christian Miller (CMM)]

I love vintage generalizations, but only about specific wines.

 

[Bob Semon]

originally posted by Joe Dressner:

That's a vintage generalization based on the concrete not the vague conjectured.

We should pause and consider the consequences before blithely bad-mouthing "vague conjecture". A lot of people could be thrown out of work.

 

[Mr. Doghead]

So send me the bottles of Arena and then we'll talk about them.

 

[David M. Bueker]

originally posted by Steven Spielmann:
I see at least five vintages of the century coming up in Bordeaux in the next ten years, for example.

Ten actually.