What makes a wine beautiful?
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Upon Tasting a 1968 and a 1970 Rioja…
The wine world is deeper and more complex than the wine intelligentsia ever gave it credit. History books missed critical events, and now in 2009 we can only piece together the truth. Wine regions with fantastic and world cup level wines were ignored as the commerce of wine pulled too hard on the aesthetic competition and entire regions were left out. Grape growers in parts of the world where expert winemakers did not have a name or fame beyond the scope of several villages were putting out wines. 1968, a troubled year, and the wine reminds us of this simply because it, like us, has survived to now, a taste. The 1970 also filled with aroma, still good as a fine wine will be after so long, mellow and tricky, still showing the landscape from where it came. History may be written by the victors but memory can show itself in many ways, and in doing so changes the story.
