Fruit Bomb?

[Thomas]

Yeah, a "fruit bomb" is a wine that slaps you in the mouth with abundant fruit-like flavors, which to me means it is out of balance. Why? Because subtlety and, as Roberto says, the earth should be represented in a wine. Finesse, less said-more delivered, and all that kind of stuff, are what makes wine interesting to me.

One more thing, Roberto said the U.S. is the largest wine market in the world--he is correct, but lest there be misunderstanding, what that means is that we have a large population for wine producers to target. Check the wine consumption figures, however, and you find that only a small part of this large population drinks wine regularly, at least once a week. So, this truly is the largest POTENTIAL wine market.



[This message has been edited by foodie (edited 05-16-2003).]