{"id":340,"date":"2011-08-06T21:11:44","date_gmt":"2011-08-06T20:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northeastwine.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=340"},"modified":"2012-08-27T21:17:43","modified_gmt":"2012-08-27T20:17:43","slug":"tastes-grey-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northeastwine.org.uk\/Blog\/tastes-grey-zone\/","title":{"rendered":"Taste’s Grey Zone"},"content":{"rendered":"
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There’s an old saying that “Bad luck always comes in threes” which I thought of as I drank the last of 3 bottles of wine at home recently, each of which had got me thinking about another saying, that “Life’s too short to drink bad wine” – but what really constitutes a bad wine? Of course nobody intentionally goes out to buy unpleasant wine, but for one reason or another we all eventually end up with a glass in hand thinking “is there something wrong with this?” and then trying to decide whether life really is too short to continue with it.<\/p>\n

I am all for quickly disposing of an obviously corked bottle or any liquid that bears close resemblance to paint stripper or vinegar, but taste is such a subjective matter that the buffer zone between undrinkable and “a goodly wine<\/em>” (insert your scoring threshold of choice – 90\/100, 16\/20, 4 stars, Gold Medal – here) is disputed territory, moulded by your palate, experience, emotion, situation and budget. This is a truly grey area of wine drinking which encompasses several battle cries, including;<\/p>\n