Comments on: Tasting note terms to ban – have your say

By: Chris Kassel

Chris Kassel — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 19:07:25 +0000

Quizicat, you might get a kick out this:

http://intoxreport.com/2012/03/03/how-to-write-about-wine-like-robert-parker-jr/

By: Quizicat

Quizicat — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 17:31:20 +0000

Lanolin, you mean you’ve never licked a sheep?

Pan grille and spice box have to go.

How about sweaty chinchilla?

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 09:31:33 +0000

Mike, ‘varietal’ IS a noun.

Merriam-Webster:

Varietal: noun
Definition of VARIETAL

: a wine bearing the name of the principal grape from which it is made.

By: Lego

Lego — Tue, 01 May 2012 16:17:44 +0000

‘Linear’ and geometric shape descriptors always bother me. They don’t really mean anything. Do a google search for ‘linear’ even the wine press can’t agree on a definition.

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By: Tom Riley

Tom Riley — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 16:50:19 +0000

How about ‘lift’ or ‘lifted?’ Angularity? And any descriptors that use similes involving obscure fruits, spices, vegetables or minerals. Quice oil? Moroccan coriander? Tomato leaf? It goes on. Here’s my take on this subject from a year or so ago, if you don’t mind my sharing: http://thegrapebelt.wordpress.com/2011/03/28/tower-of-babel/

By: Christina

Christina — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 14:29:45 +0000

I always assume hedonistic means high-alcohol fruit bomb, so I find it useful. It doesn’t describe flavors, but it does describe a style.

By: Dr. Vino

Dr. Vino — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 14:11:51 +0000

While I haven’t perused the recent WA fully, one read that a wine “remains cool, inward and totally IMPLOSIVE”. Yikes, hope the (fruit?) bomb squad was doing the opening, rather than a sommelier!

By: Dr. Vino

Dr. Vino — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 14:01:51 +0000

Wow, such diversity of wine terms that tick people off! I don’t think we have arrived at a consensus a la “moist” yet.

“Hedonistic” and “gobs” do seem to be front-runners.

Generally speaking, I find tasting notes that convey the critic (or author’s) enthusiasm or dislike for a wine to be more successful. The former may make a reader want to buy a wine (or twelve bottles of it) while the latter might be for a good laugh. What I find to be unhelpful are overly precise descriptors that serve to either alienate readers or make the author of the note look like a buffoon or a charlatan.

By: Eko Kupret

Eko Kupret — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 10:14:53 +0000

Uhm… 100 points RP ?

By: Heinz Hemken

Heinz Hemken — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 01:36:37 +0000

Don’t ban any of them. The more the better, even if most of them are either impossible to convey, only vaguely accurate, or downright nonsensical. I often use “musty”, “musky”, or “earthy” for that characteristic deep, dark, mysterious cabernet sauvignon experience.

By: Jason Carey DWS

Jason Carey DWS — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 01:10:36 +0000

Pan Grille ( Parker)

By: Dg Blackburn

Dg Blackburn — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 18:24:59 +0000

Smooth….

By: Gerry Dawes

Gerry Dawes — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 19:22:37 +0000

You are not the worst, Mr. Dawes. Coming from you, Bill, I consider that to be oodles and oodles and gobs and gobs of praise. Graphite!!

By: Bill Klapp

Bill Klapp — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 19:02:05 +0000

Not Toledo, Spain, nor Toledo, Ohio. Bordeaux. An old Haut-Brion Blanc. That is why wine criticism is but a bunch of pretentious amateurs who love wine so much that they are willing to make fools of themselves in an ever-so-public way! You are not the worst, Mr. Dawes. (Obviously, Martin is!) Maybe it was that time hanging around with Tanzer, who may well be too modest and normal for what he does. And he does have a history of surrounding himself with writers of like demeanor, at least as reflected in the printed word…