Unrequited Love

Julian Seers-Martin said:
Likewise.

I've had terrible luck with Chianti - totally forgettable to me despite really trying to love it.
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Interestingly - one of the first wines that blew me away was a Fonterutoli (98 I *think*) recommended me by the sommelier at Chez Bruce - in 2005 I think. I bought a whole case! Since then, I've found it hard to get really excited by a chianti in the same way.

It's a wine I've fallen out of love with but, unlike say CndP, I really want to like it more.
 
Simon Grant said:
Riesling for me. I like the stuff when I drink it, I cellar the stuff, but whenever I think about drinking it I invariably come out of the cellar holding something else. I’ve at least had the sense to stop buying it, already having several lifetime’s worth to ignore in the cellar.
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This made me chuckle. I think I am in the same place but you put it better than I ever would have. I want to love it, but...
 
Simon Grant said:
Riesling for me. I like the stuff when I drink it, I cellar the stuff, but whenever I think about drinking it I invariably come out of the cellar holding something else. I’ve at least had the sense to stop buying it, already having several lifetime’s worth to ignore in the cellar.
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I have about a dozen bottles. Several lifetime’s worth for me too. I still think it’s a really marvellous grape/wine and therefore can’t possibly qualify as an unrequited love.
 
Neil Holland said:
Always struggled to connect with Château Montrose. Huge Bordeaux fan and have no beef with St Estèphe itself. It doesn't move me in the way other 2nd growths can...
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therein lies your problem Neil - you simply must try Chateau Montrose with Beef. :D

Come to think of it, knowing you, you will already have done so, perhaps a different cut that's not still just about breathing? Totally unrepresentative of what the winemaking is like now but I;ve a 1978 or 2 lurking about and will happily bring one next time we are all allowed out.
 
Interesting-I remember being told by a forumite quite a long time ago that if I didn't enjoy Montrose 1990 then I didn't like claret. I didn't enjoy Montrose 90!
 
Interesting thread. I think its red Bordeaux for me. Obviously at the higher end I have tried some glorious examples, and some entry level can be surprisingly enjoyable, but it's the mid range, say £15-30, especially left bank. So often disappointing, no matter how much I want to enjoy it.
Dolcetto. Often sounds up my street in the tasting notes, but almost always dull and disappointing.
I am also still yet to have a single Californian wine that I don't find too jammy or heavy, no matter how much they promise me elegance and freshness.
 
Adam Ventress said:
Dolcetto. Often sounds up my street in the tasting notes, but almost always dull and disappointing.
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I have been drinking Dolcetto from better producers, and have always felt the same. But more recently I have had a couple of cheaper ones, and found them to be much more like the usual descriptions, and much more enjoyable. I feel perhaps some producers try too hard to make what they consider to be a serious wine from a grape much more suited to gluggability.
 
Steve Slatcher said:
I have been drinking Dolcetto from better producers, and have always felt the same. But more recently I have had a couple of cheaper ones, and found them to be much more like the usual descriptions, and much more enjoyable. I feel perhaps some producers try too hard to make what they consider to be a serious wine from a grape much more suited to gluggability.
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Hi Steve,
Yes that's probably a good approach, it's certainly a grape that I think is better with low alcohol, unoaked and fresh. I will keep trying from time to time, but if it's a choice, my go-to Piemonte red for inexpensive gluggability is more likely to be Grignolino.
 
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