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Edited. Yes, you did answer the question fully. Before the edit I claimed you hadn't. Sorry. Didn't read it correctly - too, too hurried, I was. But your answers are not supported by the views expressed in the posts in this thread. You find three questions here: What I mean is should the newcomer ex...

reschsmooth? As in resch's beer? I'll dip my toe in once more in answer to your post. It is 'more complicated than that' because you didn't address the question. You've addressed the title. Which I (I'm the guy posted this) immediately qualified. I've been over and over this but never could seem to ...

Mahmoud, I must thank you for your post. A very welcome post. Thank you. I am heartened by what you say. I gathered something about this being the situation in the USA (and presumably Canada) by watching Oz and James in California, I think it was, where James claimed to be in search of a drinkable $...

whatever turns you on. bit of a mutual admiration society there?

right on, xsorxpire. tell me what you think. should i leave it alone or should i try more explanations... i think this should be my last attempt: mate, it's not a question of me being a good judge or not. It is not a question about me. At all. I got sucked in to commenting on you impertinent remark ...

another one hasn't read the question or the thread....

Well I'll be damned. What have I done to deserve this? Your post is a nonsense. I'm sorry about that. I've just spent half an hour going back and forth and refuting, rebutting, correction, explaining.... etc. Why? To do you a service I've no obligation to provide. I asked a question. Many posters di...

Mahmoud, old mate, I'm using a lot of words but I'm only really constantly going over the same ground, which is the replies I've got in this thread. Those replies indicate that the wine scene is not, for the tyro, an automatically pleasant experience, quite the contrary. Here's a sample from that ex...

Mahmoud, old mate, thanks for your input but I think you miss the whole point....

and it doesn't matter. It was just a little question.

'ave a drink...

Yep, the standard may be higher than anywhere - not disputing it, Tim - but the nature of the beast, catering for all those many tastes and many of those cultivated, specialised tastes, means the newcomer is at a disadvantage for blindly reaching out and selecting a wine and finding - lo! it's one t...

Oh, hi guys. Sorry to go wandering off but I was a bit put off by the sorta personal animosity tone of a posting or two and thought best to leave well alone: 'Least said, soonest mended' But I am grateful for the interest shown by by all those good people who didn't feel any need to act in that way,...

Craig(NZ) wrote:People

I think this thread is just a case of too much thinking and not enough drinking!

I'm with you..

You're right. I'm labouring my point. And I shouldn't even have a point - I started with a question.

So best I shut up. It might be very bad form to continue.

I'll go have a nightcap.

Love your avatar, Tigger, very tasteful.

Ha... it's getting harder and harder isn't it? And I admit it is all my fault. I just can't find the words to say it right, what I mean.... How about a sweet shop? You say 'most people like sweet things..' Yep. Okay. So how about we imagine people invited into sweet shops - anywhere in the world? Ge...

Myself, Ross, I went the other way around... in my 20's and thereabouts I loved wine indiscriminately. I must have been next door to a full-on alcoholic or something, my consumption when I look back was prodigious - definitely dangerous. and I loved it all. It actually always tasted good. Whatever i...

Yes, we have a problem with the poor English of my query, in the first place, don't we? I'm not good at such things. Believe me, I'm struggling here to find the right words to express my query. Struggling. Not finding them. Perhaps if I can resort to exaggeration, hyperbole. Which of these statement...

Hmmm...

what I mean is - prior to introducing a newcomer to wine should I prepare them by saying something like "It might take you a while to find something you like" ?

I think so.

Now.

Thanks for the replies, the interest and the replies. Much appreciated. I think if we look at the replies the answer has got to be: 'No'. Wine is not meant to be 'nice'. It is an acquired taste. I could say to someone who'd never done it - "Try coffee" and they might try coffee and almost ...

Sounds like a stupid or rude question.

Sorry about that. Neither is intended. What I mean is should the newcomer expect to have trouble finding a palatable wine or expect to find many, almost immediately?

To put it another way: is wine drinking a sort of 'acquired taste' ?