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Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to today's discussion.
Today we are going to talk about the condition known as a cellar palate, and how in can in fact hinder your enjoyment of wine.
First, let me present my credentials. I am a liquor industry professional of some not inconsiderate 20 years experience. I have started from working in bottle shops, through to managing pubs and clubs. I am presently employed by a family vineyard as the Regional Area Manager in Victoria. I love my job. A lot.
Now we've got the guff out of the way, let's into it.
There are many, many thousands of wineries around the world, all producing liquid gold of varying degrees of quality, from Chateau de Cardboard right through to $20,000 bottles of DRC (that's French Pinot Noir you Philistines, aka Burgundy). It is indeed a wondrous life we live that allowing for budget, you can drink something different every day. This is important. It keeps the taste buds fresh, alive, interested.
Imagine if you will, eating vegemite on toast every day. You don't mind it, you might actually enjoy it, but it tastes the same, you get used to it. Then one day, someone slips you a marmite....WHAT IS THIS FILTH!!! BEGORRAH!!! AWAY WITH YOU..you get the drift.
Your tastes have gotten used to the same flavour, and new and interesting flavours will be initially rejected. It is the same with wine. When you work for a company, and they give you free stock (THEY REALLY DO!!) it is very easy to fall into the trap of just drinking that wine (because it's free, duh).
This leads to being used to the flavours of one winery, or one cellar, hence the term cellar palate. Then when you try other wines, they don't appear as they should because your senses are conditioned to accept a certain style.
I believe, in the SFA, there is a section of posters that have the SFA equivalent of a cellar palate.
They hang around themselves, like each others posts, share their PM's and Facebook away between themselves. They have their own flavour, they LIKE their own flavour, heck, a lot of the time it's a GOOD flavour. But they've tasted the same flavour for so long, it's the only one they want. Posting with the same people, in the same style, bemoaning any new flavours as not exciting. Pining for their own flavour, just wanting it that way, because that's what they like.
This is no way to live. The world, and the SFA world, is ever changing.
Adapt or die.
See the rainbow. Taste the rainbow.
Wig Out.
Today we are going to talk about the condition known as a cellar palate, and how in can in fact hinder your enjoyment of wine.
First, let me present my credentials. I am a liquor industry professional of some not inconsiderate 20 years experience. I have started from working in bottle shops, through to managing pubs and clubs. I am presently employed by a family vineyard as the Regional Area Manager in Victoria. I love my job. A lot.
Now we've got the guff out of the way, let's into it.
There are many, many thousands of wineries around the world, all producing liquid gold of varying degrees of quality, from Chateau de Cardboard right through to $20,000 bottles of DRC (that's French Pinot Noir you Philistines, aka Burgundy). It is indeed a wondrous life we live that allowing for budget, you can drink something different every day. This is important. It keeps the taste buds fresh, alive, interested.
Imagine if you will, eating vegemite on toast every day. You don't mind it, you might actually enjoy it, but it tastes the same, you get used to it. Then one day, someone slips you a marmite....WHAT IS THIS FILTH!!! BEGORRAH!!! AWAY WITH YOU..you get the drift.
Your tastes have gotten used to the same flavour, and new and interesting flavours will be initially rejected. It is the same with wine. When you work for a company, and they give you free stock (THEY REALLY DO!!) it is very easy to fall into the trap of just drinking that wine (because it's free, duh).
This leads to being used to the flavours of one winery, or one cellar, hence the term cellar palate. Then when you try other wines, they don't appear as they should because your senses are conditioned to accept a certain style.
I believe, in the SFA, there is a section of posters that have the SFA equivalent of a cellar palate.
They hang around themselves, like each others posts, share their PM's and Facebook away between themselves. They have their own flavour, they LIKE their own flavour, heck, a lot of the time it's a GOOD flavour. But they've tasted the same flavour for so long, it's the only one they want. Posting with the same people, in the same style, bemoaning any new flavours as not exciting. Pining for their own flavour, just wanting it that way, because that's what they like.
This is no way to live. The world, and the SFA world, is ever changing.
Adapt or die.
See the rainbow. Taste the rainbow.
Wig Out.
