{"id":50,"date":"2006-05-12T19:32:14","date_gmt":"2006-05-12T19:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/12\/but-are-they-describing-the-flavor\/"},"modified":"2012-10-30T15:47:56","modified_gmt":"2012-10-30T21:47:56","slug":"but-are-they-describing-the-flavor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/but-are-they-describing-the-flavor\/","title":{"rendered":"But are they describing the flavor?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Relative to the ongoing discussion about the need for better vocabulary when tasting beer, an amusing comment from a wine blog. In this case, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daytondailynews.com\/blogs\/content\/shared-gen\/blogs\/dayton\/wine\/entries\/2006\/05\/10\/the_best_wine_1.html\">Mark Fisher<\/a> asked, &#8220;What do you think the best Wine 101 class would include?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The first reply was this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I&#8217;d like to know if wine critics can really taste &#8220;a hint of raspberry dipped in chocolate and wiped away with old socks.&#8221;\u009d I think a wine should be judged on smoothness and depth. Cheaper wines can be smooth but better wines also have depth. I think wine reviewers make up all the descriptive language because they&#8217;ve got to fill the space with something.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Could it really be that simple?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relative to the ongoing discussion about the need for better vocabulary when tasting beer, an amusing comment from a wine blog. In this case, Mark Fisher asked, &#8220;What do you think the best Wine 101 class would include?&#8221; The first reply was this: I&#8217;d like to know if wine critics can really taste &#8220;a hint &#8230; <a title=\"But are they describing the flavor?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/but-are-they-describing-the-flavor\/\" aria-label=\"More on But are they describing the flavor?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beer-wine"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-O","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9772,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions\/9772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}