/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Been drinking wine seriously for like a year. Started just drinking old world wine, mainly Italy and France and making a point to not drink/try not to enjoy American wine because all of the cool, hip kids on the internet told me it was bad.

Recently had a tasting flight of all the wines by Orin Swift and I was blown away. Yes, they are huge, enormous, jammy, high alcohol, but they were utterly delicious. Why is it supposed to be a bad thing that they taste that way? it was clearly intentional. The philosophy behind the wine making is different, but it isn't wrong. Since then I drank a lot of American reds. Sometimes I just want a Napa Cab or a Orin Swift type of red blend. Sometimes I want a Burgundian Pinot Noir or a Brunello di Montalcino. all delicious and good for different moods.