What is a "perfect wine"? What makes it perfect?
Answer From Expert Roger Bohmrich MW
A "perfect" wine is very much an individual judgment; one person's ideal may not be quite as sublime to someone else. In this respect, wine is no different from painting, sculpture or music. In other words, in the realm of sensory evaluation and pleasure, subjectivity rules. Of course, the qualities which may make a wine perfect could be described objectively: balance of constituents, elegance, aromatic complexity, dimension and length of flavor, and so on. Even so, each taster alone decides if a given wine (or painting or song)reaches that exquisite and rare state of perfection. If your expectations and standards are high, finding a perfect wine may be very difficult indeed. It could be, on the other hand, that a wine seems perfect when the moment or mood is just right; the next day it might not be as breathtaking. The notion of "perfection" involves so many elements!
