A supertaster goes winetasting.

[trickofthedark]

Meesto and I watched 20 hours of wine education videos. We went to a few local wine tastings and found some local things that I really, really liked. Then we went to an Enormous 15 Vineyard Wine Tasting in celebration of our 15 yrs of marriage. Here is my now somewhat wine-educated (hahaha), but still naively honest supertastery impressions like

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[iibnf]

Australian wine rec: just about anything from Browns Brothers winery. Good, solid wines, many of them full bodied, sweet and fruity.

Best wine: Orange muscat and flora. Sweet, but not cloying.
Best sweet red: Cienna - maybe a little too sweet, but such fun.
Crouchon Reisling: a fruity light sweetish wine that's crisp and delicious and everyone loves. Australia's best selling wine.

We don't have any champagne here - we know better ;D But plenty of icky sparkling whites.

[trickofthedark]

Thanks! I will go see if I can find them and try them!

'champagne'. Yeah, I know better too, that's why the ironic quotes.

Would you say you are a supertaster?

[iibnf]

Supertaster? Literally? No. I have almost no sense of smell, so I like strong tastes in most things. I also have a preference for anything 'single origin', even perfume has to smell like only one thing. I don't like anything that tastes or smells like too many things.

So my taste in wine is less towards 'complex' wines and more towards solid bodied wines, bold, sweet and fruity. I like Brown Bros because their wine is straight forward and good value for money. Not at all stuck up.

[alienor77310]

*giggles at the idea of you drinking turpentine retsina*

[trickofthedark]

Is that the stuff that tastes of distilled pine needles? I think I've had it. :p

[akycha]

I like reading your reviews! It makes me want to try some wine, which I know will generally just lead to me making faces and people thinking I have no culture.

I don't know whether I am a supertaster (I have a very sharp sense of smell, though) but I quite dislike wine. If you are anything like me, you might like good sake -- you have to get the expensive, rice-only (junmai) sake (do not under any circumstances drink the cheap stuff which really does taste exactly how gasoline smells). I also like the highly-polished-rice (more expensive) ginjo/daiginjo sakes sometimes.

[trickofthedark]

I do like expensive sake, and I suspect you are indeed a supertaster. I, too, have spent most of my life making faces at wine and looking uncultured. I wish you were here, I have some things here that I am sure you would like.

[florence_craye]

This is great. I think I am a supertaster, and have never liked most wines unless they are sweet. So your recommendations are very helpful!

Reading the other thread was interesting, too. I would consider myself to have very sensitive taste, smell, and hearing. I avoid coffee, most teas (except rooibos), but have learned I like some beers such as fruit lambic and hefeweizen. I generally avoid bitter flavors as much as I can.

[trickofthedark]

Yep, I still don't drink tea or coffee and I hate bitter. You sound like a supertaster, too.

For beers, I like unhopped belgian ales, and pretty much hate everything that has hops in it. I'll have to go try your suggestions (fruit lambic and hefeweizen). Thanks! =)

[meesto]

I can arrange for those other Belgian beers to be around. Lambic is partially fermented through lactofermentation (same as sauerkraut) so it has some very complex flavors. Hefeweizen is often described as being wheaty with some clove notes that are part of what the yeast imparts.

my idea of heaven

[allyn]

there are few things that i enjoy more than a really good Hefeweizen on a fine summer day

[azurelunatic]

Hmm, I never considered possible supertastery as a factor to consider in "Eww, this tastes like the grape's mother got fucked by a squirrel and then set on fire (the squirrel on fire" responses to wines.

[trickofthedark]

Hmm, you sound like a supertaster who has been handed a glass of 'wine' that has been decanted out of a cardboard box. Yep, that definitely tastes squirrel-fucked.