Comments on: 8 Wine Terms To Make You Sound Like A Pro

By: HW

HW — Mon, 22 Dec 2014 11:31:01 +0000

Hear hear.

I have never read a more misleading, simplistic and half-hearted attempt at writing about wine.

Incredible.

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 19 Dec 2014 02:07:13 +0000

I need to pile in here with my two cents to add to Amber’s post above.

High residual sugar doesn’t necessarily mean the wine is sweet. Sweetness is a perception on the palate, and if the wine is very fresh, oops, I mean has very high acidity, then it would not taste sweet at all, regardless of how much residual sugar it had.

If any reader really aspires to sound like a wine pro, there are far more reliable and knowledgeable guides around than this cobbled-together hash of mishmash and half-truths.

By: amber

amber — Thu, 18 Dec 2014 18:07:37 +0000

Errrr, sorry but effectively half the explanation of the terms here are wrong. For e.g, an old wine of say vintage 1982 can still be high in acidity when you taste it today.. so to equate high acidity to “freshness” is wrong. Also no one really talks about ‘viscosity’ when tasting wine. I sure wouldn’t wanna be caught dead saying “hmmm, the viscosity of this wine is high.” when trying to describe a wine as full bodied!