Wine-tasting: Still utter nonsense

[andrewducker]

"Expensive wine is for suckers | Observatory #7" (Watch on YouTube)

And a more detailed article.

Sometimes I'm actively relieved that all wine tastes overwhelmingly acrid to me. It means I don't have a horse in this race, and can continue to have awfully pedestrian tastes without worrying about pseudo-random snobbery.

Comments

[major_clanger]

I do like wine, but I find that my tastes are varied but not expensive. In other words, I can recognise that wines have a wide range of tastes, and I like a good number but by no means all of those tastes, and whether I like them or not has little bearing on the cost.

As a junior RAF officer I was once living in an Army officers' mess (Bordon, which served the Army garrison and the nearby RAF satcoms base at Oakhanger). The colonel in charge of the mess was looking for volunteers for the mess committee and asked me if I'd like to be the wines member, responsible for ensuring we had suitable wines for formal functions.

"Thank you sir," I said, "but I have to admit that I can only tell red wine from white half the time with my eyes closed."

"Good," he said, "the last wines member was Captain X, who was a complete wine snob, and spent a fortune on stuff nobody else liked. I just want us to have a nice drinkable red and white for dining-in nights, do you think you can manage that?"

I said that I could, got the job, and did a bulk buy of Jacob's Creek. Nobody complained, the colonel was happy, and I was able to get on my ulterior plan of getting real ale from the nearby Hogs Back Brewery into the mess bar.

[andrewducker]

That is excellent. And yes, I'd much rather have the person who thinks about what would reasonably satisfy everyone over the person who plans based only on their own elitist ideas.

(Unless I share their elitist ideas, obviously.)