David wrote:What gets on my goat are descriptions of flavours in wine that i am sure no-one has ever tasted. Coal tar comes to mind. '
Could it be that wine writers who use these types of descriptions use them to place themselves far above the ordinary people to whom wine tastes like wine? I can see theses flavours therefore i'm an expert.
I remember when I did my exam, I sat next to this callow youth with spiky hair and an ego to match. Some of the phrases he used to describe the wines were hilarious, and I often wondered what he was smelling that I wasn't. Glue, probably.
I'm sure that Coal tar appeared for a number of wines...
David wrote:What gets on my goat are descriptions of flavours in wine that i am sure no-one has ever tasted. Coal tar comes to mind. '
Could it be that wine writers who use these types of descriptions use them to place themselves far above the ordinary people to whom wine tastes like wine? I can see theses flavours therefore i'm an expert.
I remember when I did my exam, I sat next to this callow youth with spiky hair and an ego to match. Some of the phrases he used to describe the wines were hilarious, and I often wondered what he was smelling that I wasn't. Glue, probably.
I'm sure that Coal tar appeared for a number of wines...
Coal tar certainly has a distinctive smell. Haven't tasted it however.
Pine tar has a different more resinous smell
cheers
Carl
Bartenders are supposed to have people skills. Or was it people are supposed to have bartending skills?
steady wrote:I once read a tasting note that included aromas of slate, flint, gravel and stone in the same wine. Maybe a geologist with an acute sense of smell?!
steady wrote:I once read a tasting note that included aromas of slate, flint, gravel and stone in the same wine. Maybe a geologist with an acute sense of smell?!
What does rock smell like? Maybe rock. Or no smell.
steady wrote:I once read a tasting note that included aromas of slate, flint, gravel and stone in the same wine. Maybe a geologist with an acute sense of smell?!
What does rock smell like? Maybe rock. Or no smell.
David, you are clearly not a super-smeller.
I can tell you that you do not need to be a super-smeller to detect dog smells (as a runner dealing with incautious steps during a run).
What gets on my goat are descriptions of flavours in wine that i am sure no-one has ever tasted. Coal tar comes to mind. '
Could it be that wine writers who use these types of descriptions use them to place themselves far above the ordinary people to whom wine tastes like wine? I can see theses flavours therefore i'm an expert.
I actually think there is something to the descriptor Coal, but there you go. As for tar, as an ex-smoker in my younger, but probably just as stupid days, always related it to excessive smokes myself
