English Major with too much time on her hands trashes wine writing...

[ShortWiner]

A friend of mine sent me this article, too. There are certainly ridiculous excesses in the world of wine writing--much of it, after all, is merely a form of advertisement. But two thing really bothered me about the article. First, there was no mention of the great pleasure that these tastes and smells which can be so hard to describe can bring. Second, there was no alternative idea. If it's wrone to use metaphor, and it's silly to make associations between aromas, then what? This guy says he was a wine columnist--helluva column he must have written, allowing himself to describe wines with only scientific terms.