"Easy to drink" wines

WINE TALK
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An article in the Food Section of today’s LA Times:

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Discuss amongst yourselves…

Bruce

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For my two cents, any wine that is tasty seems to be far too easy for me to drink! [pwn.gif]

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I have to admit, I consider most of the wines I like “easy to drink.” My cellar is loaded with older, more evolved wine (much of it stuff other people don’t really talk about or buy much…just that I think is in a very pleasant place) and younger wines (cases upon cases of inexpensive muscadet and sancerre) that I’m aging until I feel it’s easy to drink.

A lot of my friends love larger, more aggressive or otherwise more challenging wines. I find it fun to taste those, but it’s not what I open when I’m at home our out to dinner by myself or with a good friend.

Cheers!

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We’ve actively championed such wines since we opened the doors 16 years ago this Monday…

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I read that article this morning. Thanks for posting.

I don’t get where they site that somms and retailers avoid using the descriptor “easy to drink.” That is one of “easiest to understand” for most people. I am not sure where the author did his research. Silly.

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It seems to me that the article is basically saying that ‘wine snobs’ and those ‘in the know’ such as somms do not like the term ‘easy to drink’ . . . I guess they feel the term ‘humanizes’ the process too much for them? deadhorse

There are some drinkers who prefer tannic monsters and to them, these are ‘easy to drink’ . . . many others avoid these wines like the plague because they are astringent-averse . . .

Just another example of how varied the ‘wine drinking community’ truly is . . .

Cheers!