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.
Lucia's Symposium
Lucia casts a wary eye on cultural infelicities, and dissents from all orthodoxies.
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Tuesday, March 22, 2005
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