THE WINE GUY
I conclude all of my wine tasting seminars with the following comment: “If you like a wine it is a good wine, if you don’t like a wine it is not a good wine for your pallet-regardless of what scores the wines have received from magazines, professional wine writers and shelf talkers.
Recently, a guest at Elizabeth’s Café declined the offer of an Oregon Pinot Noir on our nightly wine dinner expressing that she “hated Pinot Noir”. She found Pinot Noir “harsh and not at all velvety smooth“as I described the wine in our wine book. In response to my questions she said that she had drunk French Pinot Noir often and just doesn’t like it. Unfortunately, she and a number of beginning wine drinkers were lured into the inexpensive wine section and drank a wine that was called pinot noir but didn’t show true varietal characteristics. This is not unusual. (more…)