Wine is valued by its price, not its flavour.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Essentially, wines are fermented grape juice, so I'm trying to make the point that the wine world is about scores and marketing and kind of creating a scarce resource where they don't really exist.
Wine pricing is an art - like painting.
Very good wine was bought at ten pounds per pipe, the contract price; but the superior quality was fifteen pounds; and some of this was not much inferior to the best London Madeira.
I'm actually surprised how technical a lot of commercial wine production is. Things are done very much from an industrial chemistry point of view at certain price points, but that's not the impression you get with wine.
To buy very good wine nowadays requires only money. To serve it to your guests is a sign of fatigue.
Don't let anyone tell you what you ought to like... Some wines that some experts think are absolutely exquisite don't appeal to me at all.
In the wine world, crusaders would have wine consumers believe that the only wines of merit are something completely indefinable but which they call 'authentic' or 'natural.'
You can enjoy a $15 bottle of wine as much as you can enjoy a $100 bottle of wine.
Wine is something to enjoy. We get sick and tired of people who pick it apart and talk about its 'saucy nuances.'
For me, a $20 wine that drinks like a $40 wine in terms of complexity and interest is a value, while a $5 wine that is not very good is not a value at all in my opinion.