Thoughts while sniffing and sipping.

While swirling, sniffing, and sipping, I'm typically on the lookout for a few positive qualities. But I wonder if you possibly share my priorities?  For example, what quality or characteristic is most important when you’re enjoying or otherwise attentively tasting a wine? If you’re thinking “smooth” or “tastes good,” you are likely a newbie or a wine drinker who is not particularly "into wine"; that is, one who feels that wine is simply a beverage, nothing special, and definitely not an aesthetic object; and one who typically stays in his/her comfort zone by purchasing the same few wines (producers and/or varietals) most of the time. A smooth wine is one with low acidity (mainly in whites, but also in reds), or low or nonexistent tannins (primarily in reds). It is soft, fruit forward, often one dimensional, and usually displays a perceptible and engaging touch of sweetness, and a good helping of mouth-coating, spicy oak.  This type and style of wine seldom offends, and it occ

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