Date: 15-Oct-2005 12:11
Author: Covert Harris Email
Subject: One more for the road...
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Bob, I have responded to this question at least 100 times on this forum, and I have not once had anybody agree with me. That’s okay. I’m 100% alone in my perception on this.

That said: The fantastic beauty of classified Bordeaux is that it is meant to be drunk with one’s personality, not consumed alone. All the ideas associated with Bordeaux run corollaries with aspects of the Bordeaux drinker’s personality, allowing them to come out and be experienced. But if a person doesn’t know that he is drinking a Bordeaux, it doesn’t work.

For a wine to permit a person to in effect “drink himself,” i.e., understand the vast panoply of his own personality, the wine has to be a cool medium (if you want to use Marshall McLuhan’s model), meaning that it has to be subtle enough to let the man’s personality integrate with it.

New World wines shout at you. A man’s personality does not integrate with a New World wine, unless it is the man’s personality to shout, i.e., to be insensitive.

A wine’s worth is simply what you are willing to pay for it. If a person says that a wine is overrated, yet he pays a lot for it, I would suggest that he doesn’t know himself. If he says it is overrated and even spends time talking about it, I would be suspicious of him.

Best,
Covert

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