unusual: a rant, a frown. my heart.

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

unusual: a rant, a frown. my heart.

A piece recently appeared on PalatePress, (the publication itself I like quite a bit):  'Parker is right, no one wants ageworthy wines'. Much of this is sustainable, valid information the author points to. Basically, the notion that purchasing/cellaring/investing for future optimization and enjoyment of the world's finest wines is rote, stale, passe. And Parker crusades this movement. Yes, it is observable that young, ready to drink wines are winning in today's market, but what this contention does is eschew the beautiful ideals of many of the greatest wines on earth.  The problem with this, even though there is much validity, is that Parker leads many. He drives much wine demand. The article has disheartened me; an affront to my unerring pursuit of those very wines contained in the most storied cellars; my own irrepressible chasing of a rewarding life in wine. If what I do will eventually go no farther than witnessing wines democratized, homogenized in some way-- then what have I to chase after?


I commented on wineasmetaphor's own response to this piece:
Jeremy:
If I’m reading you correctly, then you are similarly peeved as I am with this ‘article’. (Comment/opinion, mostly.) You know, I’ll tell what this said phenomenon or this resolute perspective does for me: I am 22 years old, have my own growing wine credentials, and have aching, consuming dreams for my life in the world of wine; what does this perspective do to my passion, my own ideals I chase–it shits on any ideas of my future cellar-building, it shits on my esoteric dreams of actually attaining the experience of any of these ‘stuffy, rote’ wines. Yes, of course I absolutely adore wines off the rack that are beautiful that moment, [and maybe my own generation of instantly gratified yuppies is partially to blame] but with this contention we would ignore a ridiculous chunk of wine history, the beauty of past and provenance–extend this beyond wines, even. Not everything on earth need be democratized