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?

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