RANT - Who really knows wine? The Farmer lovingly tending his serried rows? The Winemaker striving to preserve the grape's inherent flavors? The Sommelier pairing his wine with your dinner? The Critics and Wine Writers moulding taste? Or is it the Wine Lover; bombarded with advice from all of them, words to conceal crushing mediocrity; austere, refined, sophisticated, complex? More like crap. Apparently with wine comes rules.

“Wine talk” serves to confuse … It inflates prices, perpetuates elitism and keeps the wine industry rooted in the last century. Wines are for everyone and should be enjoyed with friends over food. Wines are made for drinking ... drink them.

- Ben Parsons, Winemaker