2009 Montirius Vacqueyras Le Clos

Community Tasting Note

6 comments have been posted

• Comment posted by Puteljen!:

  6/15/2014 4:42:00 PM - Or perhaps other people are more sensitive to alcohol. Opinions may differ, especially in a field as subjective as wine.

• Comment posted by pkatz:

  6/15/2014 6:57:00 PM - After 30 years of serious wine tasting, much of it blind, I note that the current alcohol obsession is only the latest fad. It's easy to base a note on what they read on the label.

• Comment posted by Puteljen!:

  6/16/2014 12:28:00 AM - I agree, it is easy to have your perception and judgement clouded by information on the label and you may well be right, but you can not know what influenced previous tasting notes. I think it would be nicer to write something along the lines "I do not agree with the comments on alcohol in previous notes. Perhaps they were influenced by the label?" wich at least leaves room for doubt.
  
  You try to elevate your opinion into fact, and even with 30 years of tasting, much of it blind, which, by the way, is not unique, that is a vain and hopeless ambition in a subjective field.

• Comment posted by pkatz:

  6/16/2014 7:56:00 AM - What is a fact is the fad obsession with alcohol, which is proven by the number of notes that dwell on that feature. Compare the sheer number of alcohol comments by tasters on Cellartracker with those of professional reviewers, who, by comparison, hardly mention it.
  
  Especially in France, where the weather is more variable than in many other wine growing regions, alcohol levels rise in top vintages as a result of the fruit being able to ripen more fully. Commercial wine interests want/need to promote sales of lesser wines (from France and everywhere else) and hence the attempt to characterize top wines with high alcohol content as somehow being defective. Their efforts have been successful as less knowledgeable tasters can focus on the label rather than what’s in the bottle. I’ll stand by my comments and hope that some will awaken to sales job they have succumbed to. It did get your attention. :-)

• Comment posted by Puteljen!:

  6/16/2014 8:54:00 AM - I have absolutely no problems with your view on levels of alcohol in wine. I just find it presumptuous to claim there is any truly objective truth in these matters, as you imply. It's wine, not sience.

• Comment posted by pkatz:

  6/16/2014 6:28:00 PM - These are tasting notes. It is implicit they are opinion. My opinions just happen to be fact, presumptuous as that may be. Seriously though, the alcohol comments are typically quite categorical as well.