Super Tuscans?

[stevebody]

If we're to hold to the principle that we talk about "the wine and not each other", then the "each other" that we agree to treat civilly should be the entire culture of wine, which we all sorta enjoy, else why would we be here? I submit that the requirement for courtesy includes the winemakers, the retailers, and the art of winemaking. (Distributors are fair game.) [LOL. I think...] I took offense to two slaps at an entire genre of winemaking and, by extension, the people involved, just as I did when someone in another topic called for Cotarella's deportation to Australia. The person who posted this query wanted an answer to a simple question: What are Super-Tuscans? Tell the guy and let that person form their own opinions of the wines. If he had said, "What is your opinion of Super-Tuscan wines?", different story and different expectations. Then, let it fly. I object and will continue to object to having a wine neophyte hamstrung right out of the chute by anyone's opinions about any class of wines. People new to wine are too impressionable, as I see every day at work, saying they heard from their wine-savvy friend that all Spanish wines are crap, for one example. Civil discourse ain't just the absence of name-calling. It's also the application of even-handedness and the realization that your own views didn't come from on high on a stone tablet. As for my own supposed lambasting of WA wines, it wasn't posted on the NOVICE site, was it? It was out there where the feral dogs of Excessive Wine Knowledge lie. I took my lumps over that post and managed not to whine about it. If someone thinks I'm an idiot, they can say that. My skin isn't that freakin' thin. The cost of entertaining firm opinions is to occasionally be called on them. I have nothing more to say on this but will gladly answer if anyone wants to object to anything said here.