by Harry Eyres

Deconstructing Wine Descriptions

Near the beginning of the heroically rambling recollections of a lifetimeā€™s passion for wine which he assembled and published as Notes on a Cellar Book, the Victorian literary critic George Saintsbury devotes several pages to a wine he considered ā€œone of the three or four most remarkableā€ he ever tasted. Itā€™s a northern RhĆ“ne wine, […]