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£8 on offer at Sainsbury's and a bit of a beast:
https://www.vivino.com/tenuta-santodeno-sangiovese-appassimento/w/6909902
https://www.vivino.com/tenuta-santodeno-sangiovese-appassimento/w/6909902
£8 on offer at Sainsbury's and a bit of a beast:
https://www.vivino.com/tenuta-santodeno-sangiovese-appassimento/w/6909902
Have a look at Cellartracker.
We have been there before. Wine reviews as with music, is of no interet to me.
4 or 5 days a week we have wine for lunch, and I always do a little graft in the afternoons, so a 14.5% lunchtime bevvy may rock my boat.
Also, I find it difficult to go from a high alcohol content to a lower one when the occasion arises.
That would be as John Shuttleworth sings, 'I can't go back to savouries now.'.
Oh blimey, yes. Is that a particularly intellectual wine, or was it the dog brush that gave it away?^^ would that be freshly sawn Lebanese cedar by any chance
Ah, I see. I wish I could work after a glass of lunchtime wine, but not a chance, at least until after I've had a 30 minute kip.
I have to admit that after eighteen months of using CT I would be lost without it. I don’t look at the reviews at all - well, only when I want a good thigh-slapping laugh, e.g...
Medium light colour of delicate, faded rosehip jelly fading to strong orange pekoe tea at the rim. The funk has mostly gone, and now the nose is full of spicey, dried red fruits, freshly sawn cedar, leather with a feral, animal undertone. Over time notes of medjool dates, curry comb and rosehips emerge. Long slow legs that seem to stick to the sides of the glass...not as profound as some vintages but enthralling just the same! An intellectual wine.
...for intellectual people, no doubt. I searched for ‘curry comb’ but the best I could do was something Amazon sell for brushing your pets.
No need for apologies, I'm not in the habit of trying to convert anyone to anything (lots of effort, no reward - my aim is exactly the opposite.) Just making a personal observation.Sorry you are not gonna convert me to CT, do not need it.
Bottle grabbed just now to accompany tonight’s steak, chips, salad and part 2 of the Billfest.£8 on offer at Sainsbury's and a bit of a beast:
https://www.vivino.com/tenuta-santodeno-sangiovese-appassimento/w/6909902
Have you met many intellectual wines in the course of your work?A curry comb is used to comb your horse's mane. It is a very specific manifestation of the word 'animal', which is often used in wine tasting notes. I like the smell of horse, but it can get quite strong, and the manes get greasy. Not sure I would welcome it in my wine. I wish though that my palate were as good as that CT reviewer's.
Indeed the review means zilch. Suck it and see is the only way.
Sorry you are not gonna convert me to CT, do not need it.
You raise an interesting issue though: the CT 'reviews' are just amateurs like us posting what they think having drunk their wine. Of course they should be read for fun as much as guidance but some can be useful, especially the drinking 'window' indications. At least they have no axe to grind.
IIRC experiments concluded that expert tasters are slightly more likely to pick out expensive wine in a blind tasting than us amateurs. And amateurs tended to prefer the cheaper wines.
So what does that mean ?
That price means nothing ? That cheaper wines are designed to please but in the sense of an extra sugar in your tea ? That you have to learn to appreciate wine (and that raises other issues that could apply equally to hifi) ? That experts have a self-fulfilling bias ?
I would be as happy as anyone if expensive wine could be dismissed as a rip-off. But every now and then you get jolt. Like I did 2 years ago from a Roagna Barbaresco that a friend kindly bought.
Remember most of CT are verbose Yanks, not reticent Brits.
I use cellar tracker for just that, tracking what’s in the cellar. The reviews are neither here nor there; it’s a useful database.
Said database indicates that my stash of 2004 Beaucastel Blanc is exiting the drinkable window, so we went with that tonight. Golden in colour, rich in flavour, concentrated flavours. Rather nice.
Truth be told, so do I.^ I'm not sure what my point was but I rather revel in being a grumpy old bore.
Fair enough - I did say some of it was down to my innate cynicism - but I still think some folk desperately want to out-taste each other.Some people like to share their pleasure in a wine and get a bit carried away. Remember most of CT are verbose Yanks, not reticent Brits.