Comments on: Wine Word: Fermentation author Tom Wark https://www.grapewallofchina.com/2008/11/13/wine-word-fermentation-author-tom-wark/ Wine and the World's Biggest Market Sat, 27 Jan 2024 18:40:55 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Tom Wark https://www.grapewallofchina.com/2008/11/13/wine-word-fermentation-author-tom-wark/#comment-3599 Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:10:28 +0000 http://www.grapewallofchina.com/?p=685#comment-3599 Chris:

When you are about to put glass to lip, the answer to your question is yes. When you are trying to sell a wine the answer is more complicated. While the most basic components of “quality” have not changed in a great while, the stylistic requirements of what is considered “great” wine have and do change based on consensus.

As for Churchill, if I recall he was partial to Claret, brandy, Pol Roger and port.

Stalin was said to have been very impressed with the wines of Massandra in the Crimea near Yalta. It is said that Stalin fell head over heels for these wines after discovering them from the collection he “liberated” from the Czar in 1920.

]]> By: chriswaugh_bj https://www.grapewallofchina.com/2008/11/13/wine-word-fermentation-author-tom-wark/#comment-3490 Sat, 15 Nov 2008 09:17:49 +0000 http://www.grapewallofchina.com/?p=685#comment-3490 m coming to the conclusion that whatever standards for quality in wine might exist, it really is just a statement of agreement among those that are educated, not a statement of anything objective.” So I can rest assured that a quality wine is one I think tastes good and doesn't leave me feeling like I've descended to the eleventh circle of Hell the next morning?]]> “I’m coming to the conclusion that whatever standards for quality in wine might exist, it really is just a statement of agreement among those that are educated, not a statement of anything objective.”

So I can rest assured that a quality wine is one I think tastes good and doesn’t leave me feeling like I’ve descended to the eleventh circle of Hell the next morning?

]]> By: Vino Vangelist https://www.grapewallofchina.com/2008/11/13/wine-word-fermentation-author-tom-wark/#comment-3467 Thu, 13 Nov 2008 17:30:33 +0000 http://www.grapewallofchina.com/?p=685#comment-3467 What were Churchill, Stalin, and Roosevelt’s favourite tipples?

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