Thought for the Day

I came across this snippet while browsing a wine board and it sums up rather nicely how I view wine and the wine world right now.

“We all go through changes in taste . . . and that’s part of the fun of wine. . . . I’m not impressed with being impressed, anymore. I think when you’re 25 you’re impressed with being impressed. That is, you get a little older, things that seemed impressive maybe aren’t so interesting after all.” —Littorai winemaker Ted Lemon, interviewed by Grape Radio. It brings to mind the Terry Theise Manifesto—“Beauty is more important than impact. Harmony is more important than intensity”—but to see the idea gain traction in California is a real man-bites-dog story.

—Keith Levenberg