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There's a distinction between "taste" and "drink".

"Tasting" most any wine is an experience. "Drinking" not so much!

. . . . . Pete
 
originally posted by Peter Creasey:

There's a distinction between "taste" and "drink".

"Tasting" most any wine is an experience. "Drinking" not so much!

. . . . . Pete
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Well, unless I've had the wine before, I don't know in advance what it will taste like. I always thought finding out was sort of the point of tastings.
 
Perhaps you misunderstood or I wasn't clear. "Tasting" most any wine is worthwhile.

As someone (Mark Twain?) said in one of my favorite sayings, "It's amazing what you can learn by finding out."

. . . . . Pete
 
originally posted by Steve Edmunds:
sounds like Yogi Berra to me
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That's because you're not the target of Twain's barb. Think of the pope's ministers who refused to look through the telescope at the moon when Galileo offered to show them that there were spots on the moon. They refused because their theology told them beyond a doubt that there were no spots and since human perception is notoriously unreliable, they saw no reason to pit it against their superior a priori knowledge.
 
originally posted by Brad Kane:
originally posted by kirk wallace:
First Brad, then Pete. Tough day for Jim. But i am confident he is tougher yet.
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I'm wondering. He'd never make it in NY if he can't handle some gentle ribbing from friends.
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I'm with Kay, nothing less than 93 points!
Best, Jim
 
originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:
What, human perception is notoriously unreliable? Then what's the point of tasting notes?
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Tasting notes. Is that similar to hearing colors? I've always been fascinated with synaesthesia.
 
originally posted by Kay Bixler:
Yeah. How come no one ever talks about the way a wine sounds? This is completely unexplored territory.
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Because they all sound the same. You ask wine a question, it doesn't answer. You make a witty comment, it just looks purple at you. You make a downright assertion, it doesn't agree or disagree. At most, it goes glug, glug, when you pour it into your glass.
 
Okay. But if I said hey, Mark, would you like to share a pristine bottle of '47 Huet with me? You might respond "That sounds great!"

We're just scratching the surface here. This is a new frontier for wine description.
 
originally posted by Kay Bixler:
Okay. But if I said hey, Mark, would you like to share a pristine bottle of '47 Huet with me? You might respond "That sounds great!"

We're just scratching the surface here. This is a new frontier for wine description.
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Surely, I'd be responding to you and not the bottle. I don't know why you're addressing me as him, though.
 
originally posted by Steve Edmunds:
or wrestling
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A friend of mine posted this to social media recently:

Three bowls do I mix for the temperate: one to health, which they empty first; the second to love and pleasure; the third to sleep. When this bowl is drunk up, wise guests go home. The fourth bowl is ours no longer, but belongs to violence; the fifth to uproar; the sixth to drunken revel; the seventh to black eyes; the eighth is the policeman's; the ninth belongs to biliousness; and the tenth to madness and the hurling of furniture.

Dionysos in Eubulus' play from 375 BC
 
originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:
originally posted by Kay Bixler:
Okay. But if I said hey, Mark, would you like to share a pristine bottle of '47 Huet with me? You might respond "That sounds great!"

We're just scratching the surface here. This is a new frontier for wine description.
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Surely, I'd be responding to you and not the bottle. I don't know why you're addressing me as him, though.
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Oh my, sorry about that, Jonathan. And your point is taken. But I'm not giving up and will try to listen to tonights wine as well as taste and smell.
 
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