Sometimes wine makes me laugh. And I don’t mean after I drink too much. It’s more the descriptions of the vintage. Last night at the Chesapeake Wine Company in Baltimore I had a good laugh but it turned out the joke was on me.
While wandering through the well-stocked store, with a glass of “sweet, fruity Reisling with notes of apples and melons” in hand, I perused the hand-written wine descriptions, I came across a few that read “biodynamic.” Ha! No longer is wine being called fruity, grassy, mossy and yummy, but now they’ve made up a word that describes a new taste. Please! Biodynamic? Ridiculous. What will they come up with next? Wonderexcellentfruity?
Well, I was wrong. Yes, I’m putting it in writing–I was wrong. I looked it up and it turns out that “biodynamic” actually describes an approach to wine making that is a cross between spiritual and organic.
Lessons learned: Next time someone calls a wine “chunky and biodynamic” I’ll stop laughing enough to drink a glass.
