Bottom line: no harm trying the recommended wines - several people made recommendations - and calibrating your taste. After drinking them, you ought to know much more about Indian wines, and when, if ever, you might turn to drinking them, the converse of when they must never, never be drunk.
________________________________ From: Chew Lin Kay <chewlin....@gmail.com> To: silklist@lists.hserus.net Sent: Thursday, 10 November 2011, 18:10 Subject: Re: [silk] Query on Indian-made wines On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 7:59 PM, Udhay Shankar N <ud...@pobox.com> wrote: > My take: there is certainly a lot of bullshit involved (and some amount of self-deception, as the various studies show). > >... > >My point? There are certainly people who can detect (and can be trained to >detect) nuances in stuff (taste impressions, smell impressions, etc). It makes >as little sense to call the entire wine appreciation thing false, as to call >all of it true. :) > > So my takeaway so far is: a) drink Indian wines if I have nothing else to drink (with an undressed-salad as backup) b) drink Indian wines just to see what they are like c) experience before reading--since Udhay brought up perfume, I thought I'd extend the idea. When I first started learning to differentiate between what I enjoyed and what I didn't, I had to make the conscious effort to sniff before I read (perfume notes, reviews, etc), otherwise I'd find myself trying to like something because I should, and not because I actually did. Similarly with wine and other things, because they can be such great social signifiers. Invitation of drinkies for Silklisters passing through SG stands, though now we will blind-taste, in black glasses. CL
