Monday blues? Here at Vin Vini Vino, we've got Monday Hangovers, a weekly dose of headaches, hangups and how-not-to's. Consider it your worst-case-scenario guide to wine. Grab an aspirin - we'll try not to yell.
The stock phrase of advertisers and society reporters is "vintage wine." They pull it out of their word wardrobe when they need an adjective or haven't the faintest idea of what they're talking about.
"They dined on prime rib and truffled potatoes while sipping vintage wine at the 2006 Very Beneficial Ball." "Trish's Beverage Mart has vintage wine on sale!" Your average news reports pick up the cliche, too. "Fifteen staff bailed out water from the cellar and salvaged bottles of expensive vintage wine."
Hey, MOST WINE IS VINTAGE. OK, OK, it's not so much that the term's wrong as it is annoying.
A wine's vintage is the year the grapes (most of them, anyway) were harvested. Some wine, especially sparkling wine, can be nonvintage, meaning grapes from several years are combined to form a special house style, but the overwhelming majority of wines on your store shelves are vintage. And it's no guarantee of quality, which is what all this sloppy, pervasive vintage whining would have us believe.
In all fairness, my good friend Merriam-Webster says that vintage can mean "a usually superior wine all or most of which comes from a single year," but I've come to realize that good ol' M-W's got a thing or two to learn about wine. He hasn't quite figured out that Champagne should be uppercase, either.
More than anything, "vintage wine" is simply confusing. And snobby-sounding. There are good vintages (1997 for Brunello) and bad vintages (2002 in the southern Rhone), but even within these years, individual wines can be standouts or disappointments.
So while I may have a cellar full of "vintage wine," it's entirely possible that most of it's junk.
The stock phrase of advertisers and society reporters is "vintage wine." They pull it out of their word wardrobe when they need an adjective or haven't the faintest idea of what they're talking about.
"They dined on prime rib and truffled potatoes while sipping vintage wine at the 2006 Very Beneficial Ball." "Trish's Beverage Mart has vintage wine on sale!" Your average news reports pick up the cliche, too. "Fifteen staff bailed out water from the cellar and salvaged bottles of expensive vintage wine."
Hey, MOST WINE IS VINTAGE. OK, OK, it's not so much that the term's wrong as it is annoying.
A wine's vintage is the year the grapes (most of them, anyway) were harvested. Some wine, especially sparkling wine, can be nonvintage, meaning grapes from several years are combined to form a special house style, but the overwhelming majority of wines on your store shelves are vintage. And it's no guarantee of quality, which is what all this sloppy, pervasive vintage whining would have us believe.
In all fairness, my good friend Merriam-Webster says that vintage can mean "a usually superior wine all or most of which comes from a single year," but I've come to realize that good ol' M-W's got a thing or two to learn about wine. He hasn't quite figured out that Champagne should be uppercase, either.
More than anything, "vintage wine" is simply confusing. And snobby-sounding. There are good vintages (1997 for Brunello) and bad vintages (2002 in the southern Rhone), but even within these years, individual wines can be standouts or disappointments.
So while I may have a cellar full of "vintage wine," it's entirely possible that most of it's junk.
Fully agree with the points you raise. It's amazing how many people misuse/abuse that word, and just how much importance it's given by casual drinkers.
As for non-vintage wines - it's a shame that so many people regard them as inferior to wines marked with a specific vintage. There are some great ones out there (see if you can spot any from Matthew Lang in Australia - they've got some very good and very cheap ones out on the market) - sadly, not many seem to realise that, given the way 'vintage' gets thrown around by careless writers.
Salil, Thanks for the support on that one. It drives me crazy!
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