Comments on: Isn’t It Exciting? http://biggerthanyourhead.net/2007/12/30/isnt-it-exciting/ Tue, 22 May 2012 19:59:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Benito http://biggerthanyourhead.net/2007/12/30/isnt-it-exciting/comment-page-1/#comment-50495 Benito Sun, 30 Dec 2007 21:14:49 +0000 http://biggerthanyourhead.net/2007/12/30/isnt-it-exciting/#comment-50495 I think this is the first Top 100 list I've seen where someone can walk into a local wine shop and have a reasonable chance of purchasing several of the wines. And even if you can't find that specific bottle, there's plenty of prolific and reliable producers on the list with many other good wines. Two Hands, Argyle, Mollydooker, Ridge... even Rosemount and Yellow Tail are on the list. Make of that what you will, but I was delighted to see one of the Columbia Crest Grand Estates wines on there. I found the Top 100 frustrating in the past, because despite going to tons of wine tastings and purchasing plenty on my own, I still had never seen many of the producers in the list. I hope this move suggests a demystifying and democratization of the wine drinking experience. In the past generation we saw our nation move from instant coffee to complex espresso drinks; in twenty years I hope that a drinkable claret is as easy to find as a triple-soy-decaf-whatchamacallit. I think this is the first Top 100 list I’ve seen where someone can walk into a local wine shop and have a reasonable chance of purchasing several of the wines. And even if you can’t find that specific bottle, there’s plenty of prolific and reliable producers on the list with many other good wines. Two Hands, Argyle, Mollydooker, Ridge… even Rosemount and Yellow Tail are on the list. Make of that what you will, but I was delighted to see one of the Columbia Crest Grand Estates wines on there.

I found the Top 100 frustrating in the past, because despite going to tons of wine tastings and purchasing plenty on my own, I still had never seen many of the producers in the list. I hope this move suggests a demystifying and democratization of the wine drinking experience. In the past generation we saw our nation move from instant coffee to complex espresso drinks; in twenty years I hope that a drinkable claret is as easy to find as a triple-soy-decaf-whatchamacallit.

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