Profiling the Wine Collector
Wine collecting, summed up well in the SF Chronicle’s wine section article.
Peak experiences / What wine means to the passionate collector
“I had a Burgundy from Gevrey-Chambertin recently,’ says Spencer, ‘and it had a smell, and I’m thinking, ‘I know that smell, what the hell is it?’ And I go — bam! Mango! I’m smelling mango in a red wine! I would never have guessed that. And so all of a sudden you’re starting to think about the parameters all over again. Mango! You thought you had your arms around Gevrey- Chambertin and then you find out you don’t. That’s how it becomes an obsession.”
