http://benchlandblog.com/2009/09/lest-ye-be-judged/ News and Views From High Above Dry Creek Valley Fri, 25 Jun 2010 23:34:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://benchlandblog.com/2009/09/lest-ye-be-judged/comment-page-1/#comment-638 Tony Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:13:54 +0000 http://benchlandblog.com/?p=1841#comment-638 That's cool -- I love feedback (in agreement or not). Everyone has a different palate and opinion. Yin and Yang, and all that. Regarding oak, anyway, it certainly can add balance and complexity to a wine. My main gripe is with wines that reek of char and vanilla and taste the same. We spend a heck of a lot of time and energy growing grapes that will (hopefully) yield balanced and complex juice. Slamming that juice with too much new oak simply covers up any character and subtlety in the perfume and flavors of a wine and defeats the whole notion of terroir -- all wine starts to taste the same (like oak). That’s cool — I love feedback (in agreement or not). Everyone has a different palate and opinion. Yin and Yang, and all that. Regarding oak, anyway, it certainly can add balance and complexity to a wine. My main gripe is with wines that reek of char and vanilla and taste the same. We spend a heck of a lot of time and energy growing grapes that will (hopefully) yield balanced and complex juice. Slamming that juice with too much new oak simply covers up any character and subtlety in the perfume and flavors of a wine and defeats the whole notion of terroir — all wine starts to taste the same (like oak).

]]> http://benchlandblog.com/2009/09/lest-ye-be-judged/comment-page-1/#comment-637 castello Fri, 09 Oct 2009 06:46:35 +0000 http://benchlandblog.com/?p=1841#comment-637 Big oaky wines do go good with food and they age well. Your fancy Pinot has plenty of oak and alcohol. Sorry to be snarky but you started it. Achy Breaky was only bad because it got played way way way tooo much. You can;t drink big ass cabs over and over but when you get a big ass smooth one it's hard to beat. Big oaky wines do go good with food and they age well. Your fancy Pinot has plenty of oak and alcohol. Sorry to be snarky but you started it. Achy Breaky was only bad because it got played way way way tooo much. You can;t drink big ass cabs over and over but when you get a big ass smooth one it’s hard to beat.

]]> http://benchlandblog.com/2009/09/lest-ye-be-judged/comment-page-1/#comment-628 Biz Sat, 26 Sep 2009 20:26:07 +0000 http://benchlandblog.com/?p=1841#comment-628 Um, pretty sure wine goes perfect with pizza! :D Um, pretty sure wine goes perfect with pizza!

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