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- jabroni - 03-11-2000
what makes a good wine?
- Bucko - 03-11-2000
If winemakers could answer that one simple question definitively, there would be no bad wines on the market.
Bucko
- Innkeeper - 03-11-2000
A good wine is one that hits you in between the eyes like a 2X4, and says, "Buy a case of me."
- Thomas - 03-11-2000
As you can see by the answers above, your question is too vague for an answer. The word "good" is subjective.
Perhaps you could be more specific. What is it you really want to know?
- VRVixen - 03-13-2000
Generally speaking, a good wine appeals to your every sense. The color is beautiful, the smell makes you exclaim Wow! The touch is smooth rather than acidic. Flavors jump out in your mouth lasting long after the last sip is gone and you say Delicious!
- jabroni - 03-22-2000
Im just a young kid trying to learn about fine wines. I dont know anything about them and I just started out with the basic question of what makes a good wine. I want to own a 5 star hotel some time in my career. I just want to get a start early int he kitchen and learn my wines.
- Randy Caparoso - 03-22-2000
"Just a kid?" "5 star hotel?" Well, might as well start off modestly.
But seriously... kid. The good news is that if you really begin to like the stuff (wine, that is), the "kid" never leaves you. I was a kid once -- in 1974, fresh out of high school (you could drink, then, at 18), discovering the world of Sangria Sangria, and quickly graduating to Almaden Grenache Rose, Sebastiani Zinfandel, and B.V. Private Reserve. I used to worry that I might get jaded, but no chance. I just returned from a month-long tour of the West Coast (Oregon on down to Santa Barbara), France, Italy, Germany, and Chile. I can still barely get to sleep at night, I'm so excited about discovering new wines!
My advice: taste, read, and take notes; taste, read, and take notes. Always something new and exciting. If the wine bug really sinks in its teeth, in the beginning you find yourself racing across town for a single bottle. Later, you're flying across oceans!
- mrdutton - 03-23-2000
Hey Randy,
You forgot to mention Cold Duck!
Hey Jabroni,
When you taste a wine along with a food and they seem to melt together, compliment each other and turn an otherwise humdrum wine and humdrum meal into a feast, you have a good wine!
It doesn't matter if that food is just a nibble of cheese, an oyster on the half-shell or a succulent leg of lamb or beef rib roast. If the food and the wine sing together to you, you have a good wine.
No matter what any of the experts say, if a wine tastes good to you, it is a good wine.
But Randy makes a very good point. Before you decide that Sangria is the best wine you've ever tasted, make sure you try a Beaujolais. And before you make the decision that that Beaujolais was the best, try a Cote Rotie or a Shiraz from Australia. And before......... well you get the point, I hope! [img]http://www.wines.com/ubb2/smile.gif[/img]
[This message has been edited by mrdutton (edited 03-22-2000).]