fjlosada wrote:Let's see. You were the one making suggestions about those who "buy into the points and the hype". You call me clumsy and unintelligent. But I'm the insolent one. Strange.
There was nothing facetious about your original post. What you wrote was clear, as was my answer. No wrong interpretation. You also said "Now, paying $70 or more for the top new release of Achaval-Ferrer? There I would protest. Just doesn't give me anything I couldn't find for $25 in other regions." And then "You recommended the bodega and I dutifully went and bought a bottle of something by them from Astor Wines for, if I can remember correctly, about $30. I don't think it was that "inca Altamira", though, since what sticks in my mind is a more fanciful name." So you never had the wine but you give your opinion about it. Curious. Was that facetious too?
Really, back to wine. This thread has left me with a sour aftertaste.
Fernando,
I believe you are a smart man. Which is why these strange attempts to twist my words around and constantly pointing to things that
simply aren;t there are quite puzzling to me.
Of course I object to paying $70 or more for the latest top release by Achaval Ferrer. Having tried their "second" wine and found it wanting, I don't feel I want to invest the kind of money they ask for the top stuff. I haven't said I've tasted that Finca Altamira. If I have made a statemnt on this board to that effect, I'd be thankful if you quoted it, especially if it involves a tasting note of the wine. The opinion I stated was one that I thought would be easy to grasp: Given what they do at the $30 level, I feel little inclination to go spending $70 on another of their products. Or, to put it another way, I have other things in which to spend 70 bucks. If it's Argentine Malbec, it better be going for much less if it wants my attention.
You want me to try the stuff? You buy it and pour it. I'll bring some good Burgundy, just in case.
And please get it out of your head: The Anti-Argentinian-Malbec Mafia isn't paying me. I am not equivocating or falsifying anything. If I forget exactly what I said a year ago, well, hell, getting old's a bitch. But I make every effort to be consistent. Ask around. People will corroborate this. There is simply a style of wine that I do not like. That style, taken to extremes, I find offensive. Do I not have a right to feel this way? Is there some sort of "objective standard" that dictates these wines are great and worth whatever money is being asked for them? If so, forgive me, I didn't get
that memo.
But anyway, my mother always told me that if I didn't like somebody's tone when they were addressing me, it was highly probable that the discussion would not be worth pursuing. You seem to bring everything to a personal level with which I am not comfortable. So let's just drop this one, okay?
Post on, though. You never know what might happen at any random message point.