a new wine book. . . .

[Levi Dalton]

originally posted by Brian C:

originally posted by Levi Dalton:
It is about developing healthy skepticism.

I think there's no shortage of that around here.

So that's settled then.

 

[Jonathan Loesberg]

originally posted by Levi Dalton:

originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:

I said I hadn't tasted a lot of Rayas, not that I hadn't tasted any. In fact, I've tasted the 89 and the 90, as well as a couple of others.

So strange that up thread you said "I have insufficient experience of Rayas (I have only tasted two or three vintages of it, all by Jacques Reynaud)" but now you say this. Which is it?

So first I said I have only tasted 2 or 3 vintages. Here I said I tasted the 89 and 90 as well as a couple of others. In other words a divergence of one. Congratulations on catching me on that numerical error of 1.

 

[mlawton]

"Just as perhaps you don't have to taste a wine to know about it."

And there's the essence. I love to know all about wines that I'm interested in, or even ones that I haven't tasted and might be interested in. All the (correct) information that's available, I'm interested. However, there are very few opinions I am interested in for my own use (it's always interesting to hear what others think, conversationally), and none of them are published professionally.

I do have to taste a wine to buy it, at least to buy more than one bottle.

 

[BJ]

I've never even had Rayas, for God's sake, and I want to try some like crazy, any vintage. Gimme now!

 

[BJ]

Actually, I just remembered I had a run of bretty 94 Fonsalettes and a lone bottle of fairly awful 00 Pialade, but those don't count...