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<\/a>A few visitors may have such a broad appreciation for wine (or maybe a lack of appreciation) that they like everything they try. \u00a0\u00a0Most other people will like some wines and not others.\u00a0 And unfortunately, there may be some tasting rooms where some people don\u2019t like anything.\u00a0 We\u2019re sorry to say that in the past there were some wineries in Long Island that fell into the latter category, but in recent tastings we have found at least a few praiseworthy wines at all the wineries we visited.\u00a0 Still, there were none where we liked everything<\/em>.\u00a0 With scant exception, the same can be said of almost every winery we have ever visited in the United States.<\/p>\nThis is not necessarily a bad thing.\u00a0 No winemaker can please everyone and, we suspect, few even try.\u00a0 They aim to please themselves and we, the consumers, can either go along with them or buy someone else\u2019s wine.\u00a0 When we are standing at the bar in a tasting room, we ought to use wines we don\u2019t like as learning experiences.<\/p>\n
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- Be polite.<\/strong> Remember what your mother told you and if you have nothing nice to say, say nothing at all.\u00a0 Pour out your wine and maybe ask the person you\u2019re with what they thought.\u00a0 Move on.<\/li>\n
- Is the wine okay?<\/strong> Maybe the wine has just gone bad. On more than one occasion, we\u2019ve been served corked wine in a tasting room, especially on busy days when the server may have been too rushed to check the bottle.\u00a0 The wineries are grateful if you point out that one of their purveyors is selling them tainted corks.<\/li>\n
- Ask yourself why you don\u2019t like it.<\/strong> Maybe the wine is just not made in a style you like.\u00a0 For instance, we prefer deeper, rich Pinot Noir\u2019s than the thin, acid ones that are popular in some regions.\u00a0 That doesn\u2019t make us right, but it does validate the consistency of our taste. The point is to identify what it is about a wine you don\u2019t like, so you can avoid wines like it in the future.\u00a0 It can be even more instructive if one person likes a wine and the other doesn\u2019t.\u00a0 That enables both to pinpoint the offending (or positive) characteristics of the wine.<\/li>\n
- Try to remember other wines from that winery.<\/strong> They might just have had a bad year.\u00a0 For example, there is a world-renowned winemaker in Napa Valley whose 2011 offerings<\/a> just didn\u2019t make it in our opinion.\u00a0 It was a tough harvest across the region, so this winery wasn\u2019t able to overcome the reduced quality of their grapes.\u00a0 They still make great wine in other years.<\/li>\n
- And if you don\u2019t like anything\u2026<\/strong>Not everyone who grows or buys grapes knows what to do with them. Because you are a wise and discerning wine taster, this winery must simply be sub-par.\u00a0 Oh, wait, there\u2019s somebody down the bar buying a case.\u00a0 Well, there\u2019s no accounting for taste, yours or theirs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
At the very least, figuring out what you don\u2019t like will save you time and money in a wine store when you get home. \u00a0Unfortunately, it may also cut you off from some good wines that might come with another harvest.\u00a0 Still, one of the reasons to go wine tasting is to figure out what you like\u2026and what you don\u2019t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
When you go into an American winery\u2019s tasting room, in Long Island, California or elsewhere, you are likely to be offered tastes of a significant number of wines.\u00a0 Some will be on a less expensive list of the winery\u2019s most popular wines and others may be on the \u201creserve\u201d list, which they consider to be … Continue reading I Don\u2019t Like It<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=958"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":964,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958\/revisions\/964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
- Is the wine okay?<\/strong> Maybe the wine has just gone bad. On more than one occasion, we\u2019ve been served corked wine in a tasting room, especially on busy days when the server may have been too rushed to check the bottle.\u00a0 The wineries are grateful if you point out that one of their purveyors is selling them tainted corks.<\/li>\n