Bored at Work: Wines & the NYTimes

[fangi]

...just thought it would make nice casual wine reading for NOVICES...

What i like about it is that it demonstrates so well, how completely opposite people's opinions can be about one singular wine, prompting a novice to feel confident in his/her own opinions of wines, regardless of whether they differ from the experts!

It's simple really.

Also, the column presents certain wines at the 12 dollar range as preferable to wines tasted blindly at the 40 dollar range. I think these are the kinds of issues dealt with in this forum everyday.

Yeah, i agree it's totally basic column, but it's a decent weekly contribution to wine-education without being too serious.

I thought that's what most people would want.

eh?

-bf

ps. i should admit that i'm not entirely certain why Ms. Hesser is tasting wines with the wine guys...she's really a food critic and she's much better at that, than at writing about wine.