His generation savors the distinctiveness of wines that exhibit their unique regional characteristics. But he fears the new generation of wine drinkers don't care.
There’s a Wine Generation Gap
...I’ve fallen into it and can’t get out
by
Alan Goldfarb
April 8, 2008
“Criticism,” the great poet W.H. Auden wrote, “is tradition defending itself against the three armies of Goddess Stupidity: the army of amateurs who are ignorant of tradition; the army of conceited eccentrics who believe tradition should be suppressed by a stroke of the pen in order that true art may begin with them; and the army of academicians who believe they maintain tradition by a servile imitation of the past.”
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