I look through a lot of social media, web sites, video and ‘wine influencer’ pages and regularly come across recurring themes that after a while just tend to look stale or un-original. Are there any you’ve seen enough of, or conversely wish there was more of? Maybe this should have been a poll, but interested to hear what people like or not.
“Drink what you like”
“It’s only grape juice”
“I’m letting the wine express its terroir”
Minimal intervention
Speaks of place
~CRUNCHY~
-Sabering champagne with unconventional items (forks, phones, random objects). Though all of that is excused if it shows someone blatantly failing and breaking the bottle.I do love some good schadenfreude.
-Pictures of just wine bottle without adding anything meaningful in content about the wine or the producer.
-Any picture with the Zalto Gravitas Omega glass or similar. I just get annoyed when I look at those glasses.
That’s a descriptor that works for me personally. I get it and use it myself.
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I agree it can be useful, but find it’s often overused to describe essentially any young carbonic red. Maybe I’m just a grump.
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Any use of the word “unctuous” relating to a wine.
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Pairing all Champagne with strawberries.
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But some wines really DO exhibit these traits:
Having the quality or characteristics of oil or ointment; slippery.
affecting an oily charm, Having the qualities of fat, oily, creamy, greasy, oleaginous
Certain thick desert wines (Sauternes, for example) can have these.
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“Just drink beer/cocktails/tea” in every wine pairing thread
“Shhhhh”
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One worded reviews or reviews that you can’t decipher if the wine was liked/disliked
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“Organic = no pesticides.”
“Natural/organic/BIO wines don’t use chemicals.”
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"Old wine turns to vinegar suitable only for salad dressing ".
Tom
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The leaning glass of Pisa!
The phrase “showing really well” annoys me.
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Smooth
Agreed - love using this descriptor with my Roussanne and Marsanne bottling, especially as I serve them at room temperature.
Cheers.
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Pretty much ALL of them but a few off the top of my head in thinking about how they make people not really into or are just learning about wine perceive it:
-Terroir is the most important thing. Or like Brian said “speaks of place”.
-The “bead” of Champagne. Or any focus at all on the bubbles.
-Endless descriptors passing for tasting notes. Tell people about how the wine smells and drinks and makes you think. Not about how many items you’ve memorized from a tasting chart.
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“If you like it, then it’s good wine.”