Juho Kilkku wrote:
> In article .com>,
> > wrote:
> > But amateurs have no business doing it. It provides a distorted picture
> > of what the wine experience is all about. Like bad porn, compared to
> > good erotica...
>
> I do agree that the best experience comes from a "divine marriage of
> food and wine" although I get immense pleasure by just tasting wines by
> themselves. It is rewarding to notice that you can actually spot a
> difference between two given wines and maybe even put it to words.

Correct. What I wish to point out is that the difference between
tasting wine alone and drinking the wine with food are immense, and
liable to swamp the differences you taste in tasting the wine without
food. What may seem like a flaw in tasting may actually be a good thing
when the wine is drunk with food. In other words, the result of tasting
the wine alone may be the very reverse of your evauation with food.

> That
> might just be the thing that makes amateurs become more interested in
> wines, so I wouldn't condemn it straight on.
>
> Let's just say that wine is like a religion. You are entitled to your
> own opinion but it means different things to different people. (and no
> one likes to be preached about how their religion is wrong...)
>
> And remember, some people get aroused even by bad porn.
>
> cheers,
> Juho K.
>
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> Juho Kilkku
> Kirkkonummi, Finland
> sine signatura