March 10, 2023

High alcohol in wine can mask that wine’s aromas.

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A Ribbon Runs Through Them…A Retrospective Tasting of Napa Valley’s Merryvale Wines Back to 1983

“We believe wine is the temperate, civilized, sacred, romantic mealtime beverage recommended in the Bible. It is a liquid food that has been part of civilization for 8,000 years. Wine has been praised for centuries by statesmen, scholars, poets, and philosophers. It has been used as a religious sacrament, as the primary beverage of choice for food, and as a source of pleasure and diversion. Wine is the natural beverage for every celebration: the birth of a child, graduations, engagements, weddings, anniversaries, promotions, family gatherings, toasts between governments, and other festivities.“

—Robert Mondavi, from the foreword to Plain Talk About Fine Wine (Capra Press, 1989) by the late Silver Oak winemaker Justin Meyer

—Robert Mondavi, from the foreword to Plain Talk About Fine Wine (Capra Press, 1989) by the late Silver Oak winemaker Justin Meyer