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> Anyone who drinks wine regularly can pick out a high-end Burgundy Pinot from a collection of mid-range California reds. Well, I drink wine quite regularly an
by dminor 16y ago
> Anyone who drinks wine regularly can pick out a high-end Burgundy Pinot from a collection of mid-range California reds.
Well, I drink wine quite regularly and I wouldn't be so confident, but I have very little experience with high end Burgundy. Put some Oregon pinots in front of me though and I can make some reasonable guesses.
Still, I had one from a small producer Thanksgiving weekend that tasted nothing like a typical Oregon pinot, and in fact reminded me of a Burgundy I had a couple years back.
- tptacek 16y agoYou'd know even without knowing varietals. I can tell merlot from cabernet, but I'm mostly wine-illiterate; but the glass of pinot we got with our wine pairings at Alinea was unlike any wine I've ever had in my life; I recognized instantly that it was something special. And that's the only point I'm making: there are special wines out there, and many of them are not cheap, and if you want their particular kind of special, you're going to have to pay. The grandparent commenter made this point more clearly than I have. You can get crappy expensive wine, but for the most part, you won't get what you don't pay for.