originally posted by Ignacio Villalgordo:
Well, being the cause of the discussion, i might just step in
... Reason is simple: i find more similarities between my palate here than elsewere, but is hard to get through the insider's jokes
... besides some old ones purchased in systembolaget which were trully amazing
...But what has someone from the third world have to teach you knowledgable new yorkers? Nothing, I would say...
Adios
Hello Ignacio!
I'm probably the person in question who may have inadvertently cast aspersions in your direction concerning your ability to discern premox in wine. Rest assured that it wasn't a personal vendetta, but only arose having read far too many reports of "bad bottles" written by people who might not actually that a wine can evolve in mysterious ways and that what a drinker seeks in a bottle may not always live up to their expectations. I posted here before looking up your profile on the other place and there's not much there to indicate that you
do know what you're talking about and I assumed that the elmundovino link was an indication that you enjoy and recommend the magazine to others, not that you participate in their tastings. I was also projecting from my experience, in that if I were to taste a bottle of CSH from just about any vintage, I could write a tasting note and pass judgment on that bottle but would be unable to weigh in on anything else because frankly, I haven't tasted enough of the stuff to be able to write a cogent statement as to whether or not CSH from that era is going to hell in a handbasket (which hasn't precluded others in the other place from making blanket statements in similar situations).
Perhaps counterintuitively, I too value the reports, notes and suppositions posted here, even those by the Knowledgeable New Yorkers (the group of which many posters are not) more highly than I do the posts on other wine boards. My palate aligns with theirs more often than it does with any other group. Sure, there's lots of wacky inside stuff going on but that keeps it more interesting. I mean, how much fun would an Almodvar or Bunuel film be if we understood everything that was really going on? There'd be no reason to watch it again or argue about "what he really meant".
And pardon my ignorance, but does systembolaget sell directly to people outside of Sweden? Is it an EU sort of thing, or do you have to have someone in Sweden buy the wine and ship it to you?
My apologies for any umbrage you may have taken from my point of view, but consider the overall context of the terroir in which the seed was planted. I hope someday to be able to have enough experience tasting CSH of many vintages so that I too can post with authority on the subject. In the meantime, I'm happy to share my experience with the wines that I
do have lots of experience with, such as Australian Shiraz, California Semillon, and Malbec.
-Eden (a left coast liberal who knows a little about a lot of things, not a knowledgeable New Yorker who knows all about everything)
