And every now and again, a wine comes along that really knocks your socks off. I felt this way about Zaca Mesa's current release syrah and decided to write about it in this column. Even the winemaker who will remain anonymous thought the Zaca syrah was quite exemplary. In blind tastings, tasters don't know what they are tasting so one cannot be prejudiced by the label. And too, it might not be fair to compare the two nights either because the glasses I drank from were so different.
Wine glasses are all so different.
Wine out of an eight ounce Libby glass can taste so different from the same wine out of a larger Riedel glass or a glass of a different shape. This kind of stuff is not hype and flatulence. This is cognitive science and based on sound principles of sensory evaluation. Andre Tchelistcheff echoed this sentiment, describing the winemaker as the midwife in this artistic process of winemaking. Back to News Leads . . . .