I’d never heard of it…but enjoyed the wine theme.
Hope it makes at least on person smile. ![[cheers.gif]](/uploads/db3686/original/2X/0/0ff9bfcdb0964982cd3240b6159868fbdf215b1a.gif "cheers"){kind=small}
Lot’s of interesting links re dahl and his love of wine.
Thanks, Anthony. I did not know he was such a wine-lover. 
Fun read.
Just read RD was buried with some good Burgundy.
That’s funny. I didn’t know Dahl loved wine either until last night I found a funny, now old wine book in my attic from 1983 entitled A Guide to Wine Snobbery by a guy named Bernstein. In the book was a Dahl quote from this very essay.
What’s also funny is that I was reading geeky wine books at age 16 or 17.
As a side note, I could find no mention of New World Pinot noir in the book anywhere. It was all Haut Brion this and Mayacamas that.
I enjoyed a lovely bottle of 1979 Mayacamas Pinot Noir at Bern’s recently. Yes, Mayacamas. Perhaps that’s what Bernstein was referring to.
Interesting juxtaposition…
‘I first came here in 1985 and said to Roald, “You shouldn’t be drinking those till at least 1990.” “Oh bugger that,” he replied. “We’re going to try them.”
Since his death in 1990. . . .
Guess he had the right idea.
Touche!
If you do a google search, you can find “Taste” online. There also was a very good television drama of it that I saw 25-30 years ago. Looks like the American composer William Schuman also did an opera of it: A Question of Taste – Roald Dahl Fans
Interesting, Robert, that Mayacamas’ extant estate PN vines were all planted in the 1980’s per their website. There must’ve either been older vines that were since pulled or replaced – or else they sourced their grapes elsewhere. Got any tasting notes, or at least some memory of what you tasted?
Edit: There are 15 bottles of the 1979 Mayacamas PN out there on CT. I’ve one bottle of 1979 from California: a Durney Cab from the Carmel Valley. (Winery now extinct, though I believe the vineyard is still there).
Keith - Seems so.
Claude - My original post has a link to the the short story.
I saw David Strathairn do a staged reading of this story this past fall – as part of an evening of food related stories.