Goode: Why are tasting notes so bad? Can anything be done? ( New Article posted by admin)

[John_Morris]

@Roberto Rogness

Excellent note just tweeted by Jaime Goode: Most disgusting wine of the night - sine qua non shot in the dark syrah 2007 - repulsive like coffee pinotage

@Mark.Ricca

Now that I understand!

Rigorous and precise, too!

[K_John_Joseph]

@Larry Link

Chad,

Don’t forget the bad spelling and word choice either. For example in your comment they’re should read their, and grammer is spelled grammar. Sorry I couldn’t resist.

Larry

Fantastic use of commas, Larry. Kettle, meet Pot.

Edited to be nicer.

[Rick_Gregory]

@John Morris

Rick – Why would you give a rat’s ass about a list of fruit flavors if you don’t know what Bordeaux tastes like? I can’t see how that would help you know what it tastes like or whether you’d want to buy it.

Because I can relate the flavors to other wines I’ve had that have had similar notes? Isn’t that the entire POINT of a tasting note? Look, if someone’s so knowledgable about a region, why in hell would they want to wade through hundreds of notes on it? I don’t need notes on red Burg… I’ve been tasting it for 15 years. The only utility to notes is when exploring a new region and getting the lay of the land… figuring out which producers might be worth trying, etc.

And nice dodge…

[Charlie_A]

@Larry Link

@chaad thomas

I didn’t really have any trouble getting a sense of the wines from the notes Goode cited, except, of course, the gazelle one, which isn’t a tasting note anyway.

Of the examples, the common shortcoming was they’re lack of proper grammer grammer, but as someone who writes TNs regularly, I can read around the missing punctuation and prepositions, and understand what is being written.

Of course, I don’t know if my understanding jives with what the authors intended, but I definitely could paint a comprehensible picture of the wines, and reading on to where Goode revealed which wines, I found I was on track with the styles, and thought the descriptions made sense.

Chad,

Don’t forget the bad spelling and word choice either. For example in your comment they’re should read their, and grammer is spelled grammar. Sorry I couldn’t resist.

Larry

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Skitt’s_Law

[GregT]

Of course, one way to add some clarity to tasting notes would be to use comparisons, perhaps to things with which even a novice might be familiar. I don’t know, just thinking out loud here, but maybe . . .

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