As far as a cocktail, I do like good wines, basically with meals, and good champagnes.
The first wine I drank, a Chateau Haut-Brion, I was 22, it was my first glass of wine, and I discovered voluptuousness. From there, I started tasting French wines, then Spanish wines, then Italian wines.
When you shop online, wouldn't you like to sample the bouquet of wines, the aroma of cigars, or the subtle fragrance of flowers before surrendering your credit card number? Surely more companies will want to aromatize their Web presence when they realize there's a device that can produce genuinely pleasing, authentic fragrances.
The first confrontation I had with an Aussie wine was a well-known Cabernet/Shiraz and it reminded me of boiled sweets. I find a lot of Australian wines unsubtle.
I prefer old-world wines like Lafite Rothschild and Margaux.
The Loire Valley is grossly underestimated. The prices are fair, and the wines are real.
I want people to know their palate is a snowflake. We all like different things. Why should we all have the same taste in wines?
Although I generally avoid the cloyingly sweet wines, I have used them for poaching fruit.
Italian wines don't have to be expensive to be good. It is absolutely ridiculous that people feel that have to spend a fortune.
You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
