Here are a few of mine.
"I find this wine complex but also rather flatulent."
"I find this wine insistent but also considerably sandy."
"I find this wine multi-layered but also way too peppery."
"I find this wine vigorous but also a little too ontological."
"I find this wine evocative but also intensely sugary with a hint of sewage treatment plant."
This is a fun game. Give it a try in the comments, as many times as you want, and if I see something I like, I'll update this post, include it and give you credit.
The late John Roche once wrote a column about being at a dinner where most of those present were food critics. The chef asked the assembled to identify the wine served. "Almost everyone there wrote down a name and a year". Roche himself just asked for something else with his dinner. Later, the chef let him in on the joke. He'd taken a bunch of 'tank car' wines and put 'em in a vat, serving the resultant to the guests.
ReplyDeleteWhich is why most of us can be served Two Buck Chuck and never know the difference.
ReplyDeleteMust include the phrase *subtle undertones of Apple Brown Betty"...
ReplyDeleteDepends on the wine. But yeah, that's a given, Syb. :-)
ReplyDeleteA somewhat presumptuous wine, but with a hint of diesel fuel.
ReplyDeleteTastes like a bourbon but also overtones of an IPA.
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