Poll: What alcohol level do you want in your vino?

[Guest in a bag]

It is interesting the strength of defensive argument tht a bit of provocation generates. When I say you either get it or you don't isn't this a personal preference? You either enjoy a style or you don't. When that follows a line such as all styles are welcome (which seems to embrace the validity of all wines? no?) It really is strange how thin skinned some are in regard to the possible questioning of their wine preferences. Why is it?

I am totally understanding of people who bag out Piemontese wines and Burgundy. Of course they are acidic, mean, ungenerous and so on. Of course they are if you prefer richer sweeter wines. Just as jammy, sweet, pruny, vanillan wines are syrup, fat, heavy and so on. That is if you prefer leaner, tighter wines. And of course you can love both and my what a place to be, but generally the deeper you delve, the more you search the more polarised you become.

It doesn't have to be evil.

In the USA you will more often than not be condescended(?) to for not loving the sweeter wines favoured by the critics therefore the market. Where here people ring the pretension alarm bells when the reverse is put forward.

It's a bit of a joke really.

But, but, but.....please enjoy anything you like...I've said it before....of course....

If you look at the great wines of the world over the past 100 years the greatest wines are generally not high in alcohol. It is true.

Is Australian, producing about 3% of the world's wine, going to redifine what is gerenrally considered great by adding a new style because of a decade influenced by American wine critics? Maybe, maybe not.

(Great wines, not just good)

And...?

[MartinC]

Agreed Brian, "What u like" is the most important purchasing decision. Life is too short to worried about %Alc., pH Levels etc.
Btw. hv u tried ur Doyen'01?

Cheers,