“Gardenia?” he asked. “Is that what you smell?”
It was Thanksgiving decades ago, and my father said he loved the Navarro Gewurztraminer I had opened, but implied that he didn’t smell gardenias.
The Inexact Art of Describing Wine
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Wine writers have the job of describing wines in words. How accurate are such descriptions? Not very. LightField Studios/shutterstock
By Dan Berger
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