Le Nez Du Vin

[Randy Caparoso]

Le Nez du Vin has been around for a while. When I got started in the business in the late '70s and early '80s a number of us used it as a reference -- particularly those of us who had spent less time in herb gardens, kitchens and the country in general. And believe me, we tasted a LOT of wine then -- getting together for blind tastings of 10, 20, 30 wines at a time once or twice a week. I can't make a value judgement, but I can tell you that it can be extremely useful if the listed aromatics (linden, juniper, blackcurrant, et al.) are totally foreign to you. Nothing to sneeze at, so to speak, if you are "serious."