A sad day in Dirtville (file under "ass" redux)

[RAD]

Boto (and the rest; great thread here!)--

No, I ain't "from NYC." I'm a Southern Redneck that eventually moved north to get some education and later learned that education alone don't pay the bills.

I won't resort to tit-for-tat ad hominem slander, but to satisfy your curiosity, I would never be one of those in LA who bitches and gripes about "authentic" NY food (I thought it was apparent by my views on wine that I don't think you have to be at "the source" to produce something as good as the original). Philosophically, I'm a poststructural deconstructionist with the occasional nihilist bent; for me, everything is context.

As I've opined previously, I am not of the belief that wine, nor any other entity, will ever morph into a homogenous whole, driven by a bunch of lemming-minded consumers. On the contrary, as soon as things become a bit too extracted, a bit too fruit-bombish, some Madison Avenue ad wiz or Chilean garagiste expat or Puglian vintner will declare ASS-wine the Next Big Thing, and we'll all feel a little bit better. It's all about ebb and flow, ebb and flow....

As for me, I'm enjoying a 1998 Avignonesi Vino Nobile di Montepulciano, which has a lot of cherry on the nose and palate, along with a touch of anise and some DIRT!!! [img]http://www.wines.com/ubb2/biggrin.gif[/img] It's really quite nice.

Boto, I'd be interested in your thoughts on this wine--as well as anyone else!

RAD

[This message has been edited by RAD (edited 08-13-2001).]