jamie goode's wine blog: Pinot Noir 2010, day three

Wednesday, February 03, 2010

Pinot Noir 2010, day three

Last day of Pinot Noir 2010. I'm feeling tired - you have to remember that this is not an academic symposium. It's largely about eating, drinking, meeting people, having fun and generally partying.

I was out last night with a small group of winemakers and journalists for a fun party hosted in someone's home. We drank some beautiful wines and bantered until late. Max Allen brought his mandolin along, and there was even some singing. All very off the record.

Now I'm feeling quite tired, and also a little distracted that blogger, the service I am using for this blog, is no longer supporting ftp uploading of files. This has very big implications, and means that I'll likely have to move to wordpress. The transition isn't too daunting, but it means that, as only a moderate technical person, it will take me quite a long time - a currency I am a little short of at the moment.

Talking of Max, I liked some of the comments he made about tasting wine yesterday. They chime with one of my favourite rants: the wine is a whole. Our language for wine is reductionist, trying to tease out components, rather than looking at the whole. We spend to long thinking of the nose of the wine in isolation, when really we should get it in our mouths and assess the texture and structure, considering tastes and smells together at the same time.

8 Comments:

At 11:06 PM, Blogger toucheapplique said...

Regarding the blogger turning off ftp uploading. If you are happy using an address like blog.wineanorak.com rather than wineanorak.com/blog then it's really not that much of a big deal.

Thanks for the updates from NZ, they've been making me home sick.

h

 
At 4:43 AM, Anonymous Keith Prothero said...

Too true Jamie and that is why I find it almost impossible to truly rate a wine without actually swallowing any.
Frankly,I rarely take much notice of tasting notes,written in a hurry on the swirl and spit system.
Much prefer notes where you and others have actually DRUNK at least a glass or two of the wine.

 
At 6:46 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Jamie ecrit
'it will take me quite a long time - a currency I am a little short of at the moment.'
Despite the fact that you can spend a couple of weeks
'....eating, drinking, meeting people, having fun and generally partying'!

 
At 7:39 AM, Anonymous Jamie said...

I can imagine the amount of time and energy you spend on partying and drinking and having fun. It must be exciting, but doing it for three straight days must be really tiring. Can't say I envy you...

 
At 7:50 PM, Anonymous Alex Lake said...

Keith, you're quite right. Wine tastings are little more than a recce. Unless someone (and I probably mean pretty much anyone, however professional they might think they are!) has really spent time with a wine, then the opinion is superficial.

 
At 7:51 PM, Anonymous Alex Lake said...

Keith, you're quite right. Wine tastings are little more than a recce. Unless someone (and I probably mean pretty much anyone, however professional they might think they are!) has really spent time with a wine, then the opinion is superficial.

 
At 8:45 PM, Anonymous Alex Lake said...

How did that happen?!

Anyway, I was going to ask if you'd come across the Brennan Pinot Noir? A bit pointless as it's not available over here, but I thought it stood out among a bundle of Central Otagan Pinots at LIWF last year.

 
At 9:53 PM, Blogger Geoff said...

Like an earlier commenter you posts have been making me homesick especially as my wife is there at there at the moment. Oh well I'll just have to drink some more Pinot Noir.

 

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