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Less is more…especially with bores.
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On this day in the past not much happened. Sure, some celebrities were born and some passed away. There was the myriad of obscure sports records achieved on this day, too. And quite a few black and white TV shows had their final airing on September 28th, as well. But I couldn’t find that certain specific, special event that I could readily connect to a wine term. It just seemed like today’s pickings were pretty slim.
So this lack of inspiration inspired me to deliver this Wine Word of the Day: Austere
Austere is a wine tasting term I don’t hear very often except from pompous critics. And when I do hear it, even from a trained sommelier, it still sounds a little pretentious to me. In fact, one definition describes an austere wine as one that is “unforthcoming.” Really? If someone said that in my house I would want to slap the taste right out of their mouth!
So, what is the wine snob trying to impress upon you with the term “austere”? Well, if it is a red wine, they are probably trying to say the wine is too young, hard, and dry (yeah, I know, there’s probably a bad, male-teenager joke in there somewhere). With white wines, they might be referring to a rather flavorless wine with too much astringency or dryness. Either way, they probably wish they were drinking something else.
And we are probably wishing they were somewhere else.
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