April 18, 2003
Checks and Balances on Wine Writers' Imagination
To the Editor:
Sean Shesgreen's "Wet Dogs and Gushing Oranges: Winespeak for a New Millennium" (The Review, March 7) makes some interesting comments. The whole point of reviewing and describing a wine is to inform the reader or listener about the qualities of the wine. In short, information flow from taster to audience.
Yet the peculiar metaphors employed by reviewers years back often added little if anything to the audience's understanding. To hear a wine described as "manly"
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