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Wine TN's That Convey The Truth Needs A


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A NumWine TN's That Convey The Truth Need Numeric System To Work: Hears Why!

Wine as an experience is, emotional, physical, mental, even supernatural. When I speak of supernatural you know that "Je ne sais pas" feeling you can't communicate. Language as we know it does not capture real 'Truth or Reality', so anyone with verbal peculiarities becomes suspect. The limits of language in describing wine are so great in order to really understand them you have to experience the wine yourself... at this point you will be able to learn the actual Critic tastes. Not by words that run over one thousand, only tasting and reading the TN will you be able to calibrate your palate to a Critic... by tasting what they love and hate...it is at this point in time when you really need a great source, someone you can trust...even if the Critic is you...

At this point in time it becomes very clear why we have a numerical grading systems with TN's. A tasting note by itself is meaningless unless a value is placed on it, something clear and unemotional, that would be numbers...

To prove my point I will borrow and give credit to a young scholar for this help, ty ...

The young scholar submitted this as proof that words are useless, evoke extreme emotions and in the end we fight over agreeing, but can't seem to see we agree on the result because of the emotions...

What is meant by 'three at daybreak'? A Monkey keeper was once distributing nuts and said, 'Three at daybreak; three at sunset'. The monkeys were all enraged. Then he said , 'All right-four at daybreak; three at sunset'. And all the monkeys were delighted. There was NO difference in either Name or fact, yet joy and rage were into practice...(Owen,Stephen,ed. An Anthropology of Chinese Literature) NY: Norton 1996.

My point is that tasting notes that venture and usher in different meanings are welcomed...therefore the more succinct we can define wine, but only through a numeric score will we be able to make any sense out of the TN's, thus one is as important as the other...you need the metrics of numbers to deliver the abstract thoughts...

So are you as frustrated with the current state of your own TN's recycled, or have you found the lyrical, numeric wine poet in you?

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