by Gareth Groves
Chateau Petrogasm featured on the old Bibendum blog a long time ago but I had forgotten how good it was until recently when someone sent me a link. It reminded me that it really is one of my favourite wine blogs. I thought it would be worth plugging it again.
The concept is brilliantly simple: rather than using words to describe a wine, it uses pictures. It makes me wonder if language is the best way to describe a wine after all and why we don’t explore other ways of communicating about wine.
Not everyone I know agrees. I once raved about the site to a friend, getting over excited about using one sense (sight) to describe the sensation of another (taste). She thought I was being hideously pretentious. But then she sails around the globe promoting world peace so has a tendency to see talking about booze as a trifle frivolous.
Anyway, here are a couple of my favourite recent posts from the Chateau:
2007 Chappellet Vineyard Mountain Cuvée
And just to contrast…
2007 Château de la Négly Coteaux du Languedoc La Clape La Falaise
Which would you prefer to serve up with your Saturday night steak? Do you fancy glamour and sex appeal or dark, brooding and moody?
One of the great things about Petrogasm is that its enlightened founders have opened up the site for submissions. So if halfway through tasting an ice cold Picpoul de Pinet you are struck with an image from David Attenborough’s The Blue Planet, you can share it with the world.
Keep up the good work, fellas.
Tags: Blogs, Chateau Petrogasm, describing wine, image tasting notes, wine