Comments on: The Sublimelle Solution

By: rowena

rowena — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:17:42 +0000

Did you say elegant, balanced, clean, and boring? Ugh…this sounds like a plot right out of the Stepford Wives. {pfffft!}

By: Yanis

Yanis — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 17:17:00 +0000

Blind tests are always the best way to compare wines. Anyway to compare 2 wines, it is important to check that the conditions of the tasting are equivalent for both of them. It seems that you compared these two wines out of meal and it is clear that in this condition a Ribera del Duero, a Trempranillo grape, would appear easier to appreciate than a Monthélie 1er cru for most of the people. If you would do the same experience in other condition (an approriate meal for example), I am not sure that you would get the same result. Franckly speaking, it would have been much more interesting to compare this Ribera del Duero with Sublimelle Grenache which could be more close in term of style.

You qualify 3 Sublimelle wines that you tasted as elegant and balanced. Thanks for the compliments: anyone will admit that any fine wine have at least this two characteristics. You associate this two characteristics with clean and boring:
Do you have any definition of what clean means in term of wines? Do you mean that harmony is something boring?

Harmony in wine enhances each flavour which combine together as soon as you are able to distinguish them.This question may be the point where most of women and most of men disagree and I invite you to survey on the perception of harmony in a couple according to the sex. I can easily imagine that you will obtain a divergent opinion bewteen women and men. Scientific researches have proved that palate is as unique as fingerprint: in wine, there is not only one truth but one truth per person.

By: Jacob

Jacob — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 21:32:08 +0000

Hey Yanis! Thanks for the comments and questions.
Your input is intelligent and logical. It just a shame that InterWined isn’t.
We are simple-minded and overly irrational.
Therefore the blind tasting was not scientific. No pen, paper, method or peer review.
Just some women drinking wine and chatting.
You also asked for a definition of clean. We say it is the opposite of dirty, meaning your wines are produced in sanitary conditions. No bugs, such as brett, are likely to taint the wine’s flavor.
Also, you ask if harmony is something boring. It isn’t, and I wouldn’t describe Sublimelle as harmonious, necessarily.
Boring is the opposite of exciting, therefore I didn’t find the wines exciting. As you say, there is only one truth per person. The boring tag is harsh, I know, but three compliments out of four adjectives aren’t bad. Are they?
Anyway, if you want us to put together a proper blind tasting with Sublimelle, we are more than happy. You can supervise, and we can post…

By: yanis

yanis — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 13:14:57 +0000

Dear Jacob,

There is no question of intelligence in this nor in my answer. It is just a question of knowledge of our range and experiences around it. We have spent more than one year to select the wines of Sublimelle range and as you can imagine we made quite a lot of experiences and comparisons.

I will be very happy to organize a blind test with interwined: it is a very good idea as soon as we compare products that can be compared in the same conditions.

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 10:07:10 +0000

As a female wine drinker I’ve got a problem with the whole idea of wines made to appeal to women. Personally, I just want to drink well made, interesting and expressive wines. If they’re a bit of a bargain - that’s even better!

I appreciate I may not be a typical wine drinker (female or otherwise) but, to me, the concept smacks of condescension.