Damn You Posner!

WINE TALK
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I had given up reading DrBigJ’s notes, for obvious reasons, but once I saw the note that Dan posted about The Frog, I had to look at DrBigJ’s other Washington reviews.

After reading this

I have a whole different take on these:













The man obviously loves his wine. flirtysmile

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Jeff

Let me know how many times you see:

  1. Opulent (on the palate)

  2. Like an iron fist in a velvet glove

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I would, but I gouged my eyes out after reading the other notes.

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Yesterday, we did a random sample set (I just clicked on 12 WA wines)

#1) Opulent-appeared 8 times

#2) Appeared twice

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These are 7 different wines but reading them they could all be the same wine…I had to stop because it was becoming clear that he using the same verbage jumbled up in different ways every time…

Full-bodied, ripe, intensely flavored yet elegant, it has a 60-second finish that is pure silk.

forest floor, underbrush, mushrooms, liquid minerals, blueberry, and black cherry lead to a remarkably succulent, voluptuous wine that is entirely seductive.

Layered, plush, and super-rich, this full-bodied, pleasure-bent effort has exceptional length

floral notes, bacon, and blueberry. Sweet, dense, layered, and plush, this silky, rich, totally pleasure-bent

Rich, dense, and layered, it is the proverbial iron fist in a velvet glove.

This is followed by an opulent, plush, savory, dense wine with no hard edges.

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Do these sound like yogurt to anybody else but me?

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I was thinking that the ones that I posted came from old Penthouse letters.

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Love it

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I was going to post the link to the silly TN generator. But I was beaten to it. This is what I have always used for CT notes (just kidding).
But — just think, you can link this to Twitter, generate a ton of notes, Tweet them all. You could then garner a following as a wine maven.
Here is my latest randomly generated TN:

Serious and longingly elegant Voignier. Detecable smoked ham, french-oaked whole-wheat bread and corpulent Mars bar. Drink now through 2009.

Now, the next phase of technology would be to link the random note to the database for that varietial and match it (also randomly) to a specific wine.

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Serge,

Great link.

As has been pointed out, Jay Miller’s notes all sound the same. There is very little difference between a 92 point wine and a 99 point wine, unless the wine is made by Charles Smith, where it is evidenced that there is some bromance brewing there between the two, or at least that might be the sexual fantasy partner that Miller refers to.

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The first thing I thought was that Miller does not have much imagination, if his fantasy woman is that weak.

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But is it strained yogurt?

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Other than 5 - 15 points too many [pile-on.gif] ? No denying Jay’s “popularity” on this BB, but coming up with uniquely creative (and accurate) TN descriptors is a considerable challenge for every critic.

At a blind tasting last evening, a Lehigh Valley tasting group tried to match tasting notes (WA, WS, WE) to several Italian wine pairs (i.e.: pairs of Nero D’Avola, Negroamaro, Primitivo, etc). The TNs and ratings weren’t helpful. Almost without fail, a descriptor for one, was more applicable to the other.

I preferred an Antonio Galloni 87 to a James Suckling 92. Antonio made a lengthy discussion of the Slavonian and French Oak barrel regimen…for a wine that was nicely integrated. It was the JS wine that was overtly oaky without a mention in his TN other than “All in the right place”.

YMMV

RT

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If I hadn’t already gouged put my eyes, that wouild certainly have made me do it. Thanks Serge. neener

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Richard,

We do agree. Suckling’s tNs are generally completely worthless.