Sure, fruit and alcohol bombs are good in a tasting and they are easier to understand, but at the end of the day, there are things that can be told in whispers and be still just as good. Everyone goes through stages like this, but Americans (and the Canadian cousins) just seem to stay stuck in the Faster, Higher, Stronger key. Culture can work in surprising ways, subtle as a breeze.
In my teen years it was Metallica all they way, but now I need to chill out and listen to something mellower. Maybe we do change with time, our tastes change, what we know changes. Maybe that is why the end of the road in wine is wine that is pleasurable and fragrant and light yet rich: Paradoxes are good for the mind.
Yours,
Adrian Marquez
Sommelier, Anthropologist
