Archive for April 2025
The Quixotic Pursuit of Balance
We all lose our balance sense from time to time, wine communicators maybe more often than others. Of all the major wine quality factors—such concepts as Purity (the relative lack of wine faults), Intensity, Complexity, and Length of Finish—it’s Balance that’s always the poster child for one-style factions. It stands to reason. I mean, who’s…
Read MoreThe Changing Face of Bordeaux
Bordeaux is the alpha and the omega for many wine collectors—the beginning and the end. It is usually an encounter with a mature bottle of Bordeaux wine, whether rarified or humble in nature, that sparks the epiphany moment of passion. When a wine-drinking novice first experiences that singular collection of complex, tertiary, evolved characters in…
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