Brilliant POV PG. I agree! Wine drinking occasions or opportunities a year is only 365 days minus dry weeks or months...minus a buzz from any number of choices...minus where "hanging out with friends" comes to mind. Examples of eating choices like any Asian cuisine is mostly regional beer for me. Most Mexican eating occasions is Cerveza or a top shelf scratch margarita. Young drinkers like the way wine tastes IMO, author is just incorrect. Our 29 year old just the other day said "I'm going to a vertical of Cathy Corison wines, want to come?" Keep curious and experimental sir! Keep us informed of great NW wines to try! McD
The "craft beer" interest seems to be declining (have folks finally realized that beer shouldn't be so over-hopped?); the "hard selzer" sales are booming. The trend towards country music has many young (males) attracted to bourbon. The boomers didn't have the wide range of alcoholic options when they were young (domestic beer, Annies's Green Springs). Historically, wine has kept its position and I believe it will continue over the long run.
"unfiltered and unfined and are not manipulated in the cellar (only native yeast, " - hasn't this been the mantra for at least the last 40 years ( and even longer in the old world)? I worked in a Santa Clara Valley winery in the '70s and that was our religion then.
Brilliant POV PG. I agree! Wine drinking occasions or opportunities a year is only 365 days minus dry weeks or months...minus a buzz from any number of choices...minus where "hanging out with friends" comes to mind. Examples of eating choices like any Asian cuisine is mostly regional beer for me. Most Mexican eating occasions is Cerveza or a top shelf scratch margarita. Young drinkers like the way wine tastes IMO, author is just incorrect. Our 29 year old just the other day said "I'm going to a vertical of Cathy Corison wines, want to come?" Keep curious and experimental sir! Keep us informed of great NW wines to try! McD
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I am lucky indeed. We play a bit of guitar together too. Mostly Gypsy django type stuff. Hope you are well!
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Love the article, especially since I am a boomer. I love experimenting and occassionaly my wife asks me to stop experimenting :-)
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The "craft beer" interest seems to be declining (have folks finally realized that beer shouldn't be so over-hopped?); the "hard selzer" sales are booming. The trend towards country music has many young (males) attracted to bourbon. The boomers didn't have the wide range of alcoholic options when they were young (domestic beer, Annies's Green Springs). Historically, wine has kept its position and I believe it will continue over the long run.
"unfiltered and unfined and are not manipulated in the cellar (only native yeast, " - hasn't this been the mantra for at least the last 40 years ( and even longer in the old world)? I worked in a Santa Clara Valley winery in the '70s and that was our religion then.
Yeah, I guess everything old is new again, but with a different spin.
Another economic take is that just like the national middle class, the middle class of wine is also fading. chicken or egg??