Klarinet Archive - Posting 000922.txt from 1998/12

From: Edinger/Gilman <wde1@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] music and wine
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1998 22:07:50 -0500

I can't resist whining.

Dan Leeson observed:

"...if one says that one does not like him because his sound is
insufficiently 'chocolately, liquidy, and poetic' that is a perception
that is so very personal (and to me, quite incomprehensible) that I
don't know what to do with it."

You think that's a problem in just music? You ought to read what those
crazy wine writers and winemakers say about their subject. Sounds like
a fruit salad instead of a glass of wine. "Chocolately, liquidy, and
poetic" would probably serve as a typical description of a good Cabernet
Sauvignon. Maybe it is true, as one great writer put it, that "music
and wine are one," but as a fermentation scientist, I sometimes find it
regrettable.

Bill Edinger

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