Tuesday, March 22, 2005

The comedy of wine snobbery or oenophilism is summed up in a ridiculous film Mondovino. Wine is wine and there are gradations in quality but from my first tasting in a Cambridge college in 1966 until my sales stint at Sherry-Lehman in 2002 I have always known that most of it is "in the head" and that after two glasses it all basically tastes the same.