Karen MacNeil
Karen MacNeil
Karen MacNeil is an American author, journalist, wine educator and consultant based in Napa Valley, and the only person to have won every major wine award in the English language. MacNeil is also the creator and chairman of the Rudd Center for Professional Wine Studies at the Culinary Institute of America in St. Helena...
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It is not true that there is a linear relationship between price and quality. A higher price doesn't mean its better. The higher you go in price, the quality differences get smaller.
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If you're just looking for a group of easy wines to drink (in the) summer, should you pay $30 a bottle? Absolutely not. Never start by buying the most expensive wines.
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A wine steward's job is to know about their list, ... It makes no sense not to take advantage of that expertise.
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People get it immediately. It's a fun way of remembering.
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A wine steward's job is to know about their list. It makes no sense not to take advantage of that expertise.
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One of the most insidious myths in American wine culture is that a wine is good if you like it. Liking a wine has nothing to do with whether it is good. Liking a wine has to do with liking that wine, period. Wine requires two assessments: one subjective, the other objective. In this it is like literature. You may not like reading Shakespeare but agree that Shakespeare was a great writer nonetheless.
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You could say one wine is like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz while another is like the mature Judy Garland, or that a big voluptuous chardonnay is like Marilyn Monroe -round, bosomy - you can remember that chardonnay, If you say a wine is snappy and lively, like Robin Williams, that's very different than the Anthony Hopkins of wine - urbane, sophisticated, measured, considered.
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Beaujolais is the only white wine that happens to be red.
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A wine is ready when you can't bear to wait for it any longer.
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There are some amazingly good wines for five dollars a bottle.