Austria, Spain, Portugal? And the U.S. has wines I want to buy as well.
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But that’s not “terroir”. Take any other producer from the same vineyard and it tastes completely different. Who is right?
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I’ll take it a step further. Champagnes should be burped out. Val Vilaine is one hell of a still wine.
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Well maybe ‘want to buy’ is a bit broad. But actually buying: zero. From the Americas, Spain, Portugal, Australia, and the rest.
If you’re going to drink cheap wine, make it white.
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There is no such thing as a little TCA.
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The flavor or smell of oak does not make wine better. Quite the contrary.
(I virtue signal by poring oaky wine down the drain even when no one is looking.)
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All aged red wines (call it 25+ years) taste the same, no matter the grape
And almost all of them are more ‘interesting’ than actually delicious
Provence roses are the weakest roses
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Red wine doesn’t go well with most cheeses.
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But always better on the third day. There’s even a guru about 3 day wines so you know it’s true.
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this thread gives me renewed faith in the world
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Rousseau uses too much oak on the big three. Fourrier makes a better Clos St Jacques. Rousseau’s best wine is actually the Ruchottes. Come at me 
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People who say “backed by science” or “scientifically proven” about subjective things can be ignored.
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Mega-tastings of 10, 15, 20 or more wines are the antithesis of wine enjoyment. There may be legitimate reasons to do them, but pleasure is not one of them.
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No matter how expensive or great a wine is, the “magic” moments of wine tasting are a combination of the setting, your personal state at the time physically and mentally, the food and the bottle itself. There are no guarantees when those moments will happen, and certainly no guarantees they can be repeated with a given wine.
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I have no idea why people compare Pinot Noir and Grenache so often. I make one for a living and don’t own, or aspire to own, a single bottle of Grenache, Rayas excepted. They have nothing in common, Grenache is just a grape for people who don’t want to deal with the fussiness of Pinot Noir and need something easier to grasp. 
Somms, like point scores, can be useful.
Lots of wines taste better the second day. I’m tasting a Blanc de Blanc from Whistling Ridge that we opened yesterday, and it is definitively better today.
@David_Bu3ker and I have a near 100% alignment in our cellars and palates and still will contradict each other on WB all the time.
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People mostly say “I only drink wine with food” to sound cultured and not to sound like a they have a drinking problem, but even most of those people drink most of their wine outside of the boundaries of the meal.
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Perfect 55 degree dark sideways storage is overrated and most wine geeks build and talk it up because they’re rationalizing how much money and space they’ve devoted to storage.
I’d pay big money to watch the CEOs of Eurocave, Le Cache and Vinotemp do a blind tasting of bottles stored in their cabinets for a decade against bottles stored in a box in the downstairs hall closet.
But . . . most of my wine is stored in those devices or offsite wine storage, so what does that make me?
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We are all alcoholics…admit it!
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