Comments on: Why most American (and a considerable proportion of Spanish) wine is crap

By: Horace Jeffery Hodges

Horace Jeffery Hodges — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:33:40 +0000

Thanks, Trevor, for the link . . . even if this means that I’m now casting my lot with the anti-Americans and am thus a fellow-travelor of anti-American wine terroirists!

By the way, did you happen to see my entry on “José Ortega y Gasset: “Europa es el único continente que tiene un contenido.”

That could also be construed as anti-American!

At least I’m doing well in Korea as “His Joseon Highness” . . . but that might just be the third anti-American strike against me.

I guess I’m out.

Jeffery Hodges

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By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 06:44:01 +0000

The vanilla-y merlot and the smoked tempranillo (but the merlot especially, oh and shiraz too) – make me sick. Sometimes they just make the skin on my lips peel off (as happened after a couple of glasses of Mallorcan Murder a few weeks back). But don’t you dare go after grenache fuelled Priorats of my heart. Granted, every week there’s a new one and I’ve tried most of them and stick to what I know. Scala Dei (€9-10) and Les Terrasses (€20) are both very drinkable with a meal.

But you’re right: you can quite easily pay a lot less than that for perfectly acceptable wine.

By the way, tried a ‘gold medal’ Toro on Saturday night. Now that was a wine made for spitting out.