Pompous Twitage in Wine Reviewing
Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2013 6:45 pm
We see some pretty over the top verbiage from wine reviewers trying to be different/cute/precious, but this local one has to be near the top of Mount Pretentious. I thought under the circumstances you'd allow me the 'twitage' in the thread title.
What do you think? Methinks he has stuffed a thesaurus up his fundament (where it rests alongside his palate).
What do you think? Methinks he has stuffed a thesaurus up his fundament (where it rests alongside his palate).
Château Clément St-Jean 2009 - spoons calm, cool, collected as a Bordeaux Cru Bourgeois with fruit, acidity and tannin all in balance. Beauty grows vicariously out of the hebetic and muliebrous 2009 vintage by way of an immediate transference to the Medoc’s middle class. This château shines, “thinking clean clean thoughts” and demonstrates there is an ecclesiastical time for everything.