Wet Dogs and Gushing Oranges: Winespeak for a New Millennium

By SEAN SHESGREEN

As a habitual wine drinker and a former wine columnist, I regularly slog through articles and books filled with the fanciful, extravagant, mystifying babble used by writers whose prose is deeply disconnected from the beverage they pretend to describe.

One such writer, ransacking nature for imagery to promote a French wine, paints a regional...

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