Calories in Wine Tasting Blog » Calories in Wine: Tasting Notes
35 Comments- Add comment | Back to Wine Tasting Blog Written on 16-Jul-2008 by StacyNelsonI taste wine on this site, but should you believe me when I tell you it tastes like cherry pie? This is a long debated point that goes round and round in the blogging world. Wine is a personal subject. Even the sensory things of color and aromas are personal. There's no getting around it - wine is a personal experience, which is why I find tasting notes to be interesting but rarely take heed in them. Alder Yarrow at Vinography always has the best diatribes and I highly recommend you check our his opinions on wine notes here.
However, sometimes it is not the critics who take descriptive license, but the winemakers themselves. Mark Fisher at Uncorked had a great article here where he discusses the back labels on the wine bottles.
Do you ever get the feeling that folks in the southern hemisphere have, well, different way of doing things? I mean, who wouldn’t want to taste a wine that boasts “wafts of toasted marshmallow, sweet custard pie and freshly snapped cinnamon sticks”?
Here are some other back of the bottle notes:
Deeply scented Black Forest cherries greet the nose and fuse with wafts of toasted marshmallow, sweet custard pie and freshly snapped cinnamon sticks. Dull hints of well seasoned oak support rather than compete with the floral scent of musky black roses and a savoury, thorny understory like briar growing through straw mulch after recent rain adds an appealing edge.
Or this:
The palate is a combination of tangy fruit and well presented tannins which run through the palate as smoothly as a Humvee over judder bars on an ocean boulevard.
Or my favorite (on a Sauvignon Blanc none the less):
sumptuous aromas that invoke thoughts of a baker's kitchen warm brioche and almond flan with lashes of cream.
Hello? It's like a cheap romance novel but there's alcohol involved! Excellent! But I trust it about as much as infomercial claims.
Scott asked me after the show this week how I know what to buy when I am in the store and I told him that I keep to my price point (I don't have romantic ideals that the $30 bottle will be better than the $10 one), I pay attention to my geography (because some areas are better at certain varietals than others), and I rely on a little thing called luck. You can't be afraid to drink a whole lot of wine to find the ones you want to drink again.
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