On Sat, 17 Feb 2007 13:45:47 -0600, "J. Davidson" > wrote:

>Two questions:
>Why must one learn to like something that tastes awful? (wine)
>And why the mystique, when wine is merely another liquid such as pepsi, tea,
>coffee, etc. Is it sort of like DeBeers and diamonds?
>J. Davidson (who got left out of the veneration of wine group.)
>
IMHO that's pretty much it, something for snobs to rave about. An aquired taste means that it tastes
like shit but you get used to it.

On the other hand I once had a couple bottles of Gooseberry wine from Germany that I really liked
and can easily sit and drink a whole bottle of good (or not so good) sherry and enjoy the flavor.

A girl I once knew bought a bottle of Chateau LaFeet Rothschild (very expensive) and was raveing
about the boquet and a lot of other stuff, to me it stank - and tasted worse than it smelled.