This week on The Crush podcast, Whitney and I are talking about that tongue-tantalising thing called taste. What it means to us, why it can be so darn elusive, and what the heck we’re talking about when we find minerality in wine.
Plus, I chat with the talented young wine writer (and Germany trip travel buddy) Talia Baiocchi about why flowery tasting notes fall flat.
Talia writing taste notes with her fave Mosel producer, Will Shaefer
Oh, and we also talk animals and booze: sex-starved fruit flies turning to the bottle, why it’s funny and wrong at the same time to imagine getting a pomeranian drunk, and what happens when two drunk men run loose in an Australian Sea World (hint: it involves dolphins, sharks, and a fairy penguin called Dirk).
One of the many pics of me with my nose in a glass. This was in South Africa back in '09 when I was still fresh to the wine scene..I wonder how my tasting notes then would differ from now?
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