I think the following cartoon is how a lot of people feel about wine. It wasn’t until I started this blog that I realised how difficut it is to describe various wines.

I have always been into the cheaper end of the wine scale, which in my opinion is harder to describe as a lot of them do taste very similar.

Listening to the wine crtics on TV does make me cringe. They come up with so many words to describe the wine that I am sure 90% of it is utter nonsense. I generally try to identify which fruits I can taste, and how much of an oaky taste it has. Other than that I will leave the “taste like mouldy carpet” and “essence of horse *&%$” to the TV buff’s!

If anyone has a take on this I would be keen to know, it has baffled me for years.