Good Grape Wine Company

May 7 2006

Wine Sediments

I have a post on the Wine Sediments portion of the Well Fed Network again this week.  Mark Fisher, the editor of the wine portion of the site and also a wine writer and blogger at Uncorked, can  take credit for a deliciously appropriate headline for my post:  "Hoisting Wine Snobs on their own Petards."

Though, that one isn’t nearly as good as his recent headline that exclaimed:  "2005 Bordeaux:  A Fine Line between Sober Analysis and Orgasm."  Some of the articles on the vintage have bordered on orgasmic, making it not only funny, but also true. 

The crux of my post is the ongoing debate between wine with a keen sense of place and wine as recreational beverage enjoyed by many—and an increasing amount of of twenty-somethings with dubious reverence for the vine. 

I’m reminded of a holiday party I went to four or five years ago when the hostess (in her mid-twenties) offered me a glass of red wine from a previously opened bottle, served it to me over ice, and offhandedly remarked that they had "sooooo" much wine leftover from Thanksgiving.

True story.  Red wine.  Opened bottle—three weeks old.  Over ice. 

I played it off, excused myself to go to the restroom and poured the offending liquid down the drain.

So, make no mistake, the young ‘uns have a lot to learn around the conventions of wine, but I don’t necessarily look askance at folks just earning their stripes.  Heck, I’m far from knowing anything about wine, and really, that is its allure.  But, I do strongly believe that all people deserve respect in regards to how they enjoy wine.  Unless of course you drink White Zinfandel or Arbor Mist, then, well, that’s a greater sin then serving a glass of red over ice. 

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