Thread: "Sexy" as a description of a wine - give me a break!

On Oct 30, 4:44 am, "Dee Randall" <deedo...@shentel.net> wrote:
> Sexy? Is that a common description? :-))
>
> Dee Dee

Quite common these days. Along with 'hedonistic', 'opulent',
'seductive' and various other terms certain wine critics deem
appropriate for every other ink-coloured wine...

Cheers,

Salil

Salil wrote:
> On Oct 30, 4:44 am, "Dee Randall" <deedo...@shentel.net> wrote:
>> Sexy? Is that a common description? :-))
>>
>> Dee Dee
>
> Quite common these days. Along with 'hedonistic', 'opulent',
> 'seductive' and various other terms certain wine critics deem
> appropriate for every other ink-coloured wine...

Not to mention my all-time favorite, "liquid Viagra," penned by the
inimitable Pope of Monkton. Perhaps there's a sub-group of humanity
with a special form of synaesthesia between their sense of smell/taste
and their... uh... tactile sense?

Mark Lipton

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> On Oct 30, 4:44 am, "Dee Randall" <deedo...@shentel.net> wrote:
>> Sexy? Is that a common description? :-))
>>
>> Dee Dee
>
> Quite common these days. Along with 'hedonistic', 'opulent',
> 'seductive' and various other terms certain wine critics deem
> appropriate for every other ink-coloured wine...
>
> Cheers,
>
> Salil

Terms like this, including "feminine wine" and "alluring" and "mysterious"
are meaningless and toe curlingly twee - has anyone ever written a tossers'
wine glossary?

Cheers!
Martin

On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:44:33 -0400, "Dee Randall"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>Sexy? Is that a common description? :-))

It comes from marketing-speak, doesn't it? From about a decade ago
IIRC.

--
Steve Slatcher
http://pobox.com/~steve.slatcher

"Dee Randall" <[email protected]> wrote in news:geai10$ta9$1
@reader.motzarella.org:

> In the book "Vino Italiano The Regional Wines of Italy" by Bastianich &
> Lynch, reading pp. 212-213, notes re Grattamacco Roso, it says:
>
> "A sexy, savory red produced with the help of Tuscan legend Maurizio
> Castelli. One of the best values in the group."
>
> Sexy? Is that a common description? :-))

I remember a movie where someone takes a sip of wine and says "Tepid yet
flacid." My favorite is at an auction for charity a lot of wine (the only
lot of wine) was described as "Each bottle represents an unnatural sex act
you could get someone to perform after a dinner with this wine."

Fred.

"Steve Slatcher" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]..
> On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:44:33 -0400, "Dee Randall"
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>Sexy? Is that a common description? :-))
>
> It comes from marketing-speak, doesn't it? From about a decade ago
> IIRC.
>
> --
> Steve Slatcher
> http://pobox.com/~steve.slatcher

A well-known Australian wine person (whose name I forget) when confronted
with this sort of language said to the perpetrator "Do you want to drink it
or &%#k it?"

Cheers!
Martin

Martin Field wrote:
>> On Oct 30, 4:44 am, "Dee Randall" <deedo...@shentel.net> wrote:
>>> Sexy? Is that a common description? :-))
>>>
>>> Dee Dee
>> Quite common these days. Along with 'hedonistic', 'opulent',
>> 'seductive' and various other terms certain wine critics deem
>> appropriate for every other ink-coloured wine...
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Salil
>
> Terms like this, including "feminine wine" and "alluring" and "mysterious"
> are meaningless and toe curlingly twee - has anyone ever written a tossers'
> wine glossary?
>

I'll certainly go along with "liquid Viagra" as being total hokum,
but I think "feminine" and "masculine" have real meanings WRT wine.
A masculine wine has a big structure and tannins, a feminine wine
has round soft fruit and is usually less ageworthy, but more
enjoyable young. Not meaning to sound perverse, sorry!

My take on "sexy" is as the English translation of the French
"seductive," which is certainly a correct descriptive in French,
meaning (I guess) a wine that grows on you, making you want more.
Perhaps it wins you over.

These aren't the most quantitative terms, but then what adjectives
are?

Why is "feminine" worse (or better) than "black fruit?"

-E

On Oct 29, 5:43�pm, "Martin Field" <onet...@liamezo.moc.ua> wrote:
> > On Oct 30, 4:44 am, "Dee Randall" <deedo...@shentel.net> wrote:
> >> Sexy? �Is that a common description? �:-))
>
> >> Dee Dee
>
> > Quite common these days. Along with 'hedonistic', 'opulent',
> > 'seductive' and various other terms certain wine critics deem
> > appropriate for every other ink-coloured wine...
>
> > Cheers,
>
> > Salil
>
> Terms like this, including "feminine wine" and "alluring" and "mysterious"
> are meaningless and toe curlingly twee - has anyone ever written a tossers'
> wine glossary?
>
> Cheers!
> Martin

OK, I'll set myself up for universal newsgroup scorn and say I've got
no problem with "feminine." Possibly it makes me both twee -whatever
that means! - and sexist, but I find feminine and masculine as
descriptors can be meaningful. To me, Volnay is typically more
feminine than NSG, and St Estephe more masculine than Margaux. There,
I've said it, scorn me.

Other than that. pretty much agree with group.