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“Vintage of the Century!” “Terrible vintage across the board!” Vintage, Vintage Vintage! UGHHHHHHHHH, enough already!!! What exactly does vintage mean anyway? Does it even matter? Should you care? With the fear of being chided%
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2 years ago
I guess I am a wine geek but I don't read vintage reports, generally don't link to stories of the same and apart from needing to know some 'good years' for passing the WSET diploma several years ago have no idea which year is supposed to be good or better or not in any region at all.
Vintages only really matter if you are buying top clarets and even then the price is generally determined by the quality of the vintage anyway.
2 years ago
I guess I am a wine geek but I don't read vintage reports, generally don't link to stories of the same and apart from needing to know some 'good years' for passing the WSET diploma several years ago have no idea which year is supposed to be good or better or not in any region at all.
Vintages only really matter if you are buying top clarets and even then the price is generally determined by the quality of the vintage anyway.
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The fact that most wines are sold at a level that ranges between chemical to nice glugging wine is irrelevant to any site claiming some KNOWLEDGE of wine, lets face it most people dont like Picasso or classical music, does this make Robert Mitchum and Madonna greater artists? Theres not much point in learning too much about run of the mill wines as super market shelves will provide you with hundreds of types that fade from the memory pretty quickly. A 25 year old bottle from your own cellar (mine`s literally located in a toilet!) that is in perfect condition takes wine drinking to great sensual hights. Thanks for reading this rant, I can`t easily stop talking wine!
2 years ago
The fact that most wines are sold at a level that ranges between chemical to nice glugging wine is irrelevant to any site claiming some KNOWLEDGE of wine, lets face it most people dont like Picasso or classical music, does this make Robert Mitchum and Madonna greater artists? Theres not much point in learning too much about run of the mill wines as super market shelves will provide you with hundreds of types that fade from the memory pretty quickly. A 25 year old bottle from your own cellar (mine`s literally located in a toilet!) that is in perfect condition takes wine drinking to great sensual hights. Thanks for reading this rant, I can`t easily stop talking wine!