Where is the Tasting Room from 30 years ago?

This is an excerpt from my most recent post on Substack. Give it a look:

As I am seated for my pre-set 5-Wine experiential tasting, I know exactly what’s going to happen. A monologue-style talk, where my “wine concierge” speaks and I just listen. Always the same superlatives, the “best wine”, the “most remarkable vineyard”, “greatest” winemaker, “perfection” in a glass, multiple wines with 95-100 points, 24 months in new French oak from Allier, Nevers, Tronçais, and Vosges, the expanded vocabulary to describe the aroma and flavors, petrichor, early summer white flowers, mineral tension1; the same cadence, inflection, and superlatives over and over.