I love wine. I love dry reds, dry whites, a few semi-dries. No sweets. I know what I like when I taste it. I’m lost when someone tries to describe “what” I’m tasting.
Tiger Lily decided to help me out by showing me other people are as lost as I. She grabbed an article from HuffPost.com, and for a few newsletters, she is going to give us an example of overused phrases and ideas.
Here is #1.
Familial wine comparisons. This wine is Grange junior. That one is a little Brunello. It's son-of-Opus, a step-daughter of Amarone. An example: Cotes du Rhone rouge is too often pinned as baby-Chateauneuf. Both wines are from the southern Rhone valley in France. Cotes du Rhone is often one-third the price of Chateauneuf du Pape, and while no less pleasurable, it's a different experience. Tasters may be unable to distinguish one wine from the other in a blind tasting; the wines are unique for reasons because of grape selection, places of origin and upbringing of the wine. Applying kin terminology has lost effectiveness because of overuse, and moreover, isn't the sure fit intended by promoters.
