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

[Georgie]

As a novice, I am still very much in the "mmm-good", or "eeuuww-yuck" stage of wine tasting. But I certainly have had instances with food where I've said, "This tastes like such and such smells." Relating tastes to smells such as leather or even damp dogs seems completely reasonable to me. I, for one, learn a lot and enjoy reading the wonderful descriptions that wine tasters write. No one has a problem when poets use creative imagery; why not wine tasters?

[This message has been edited by Georgie (edited 03-08-2003).]