I have for years summed up my tasting/visit articles with a recommendation: what to buy, what to search for, and what to hopefully acquire.
This summary has the potential to collide with my vin d’émotion rating system, so I have therefore decided to merge the two.
Vins d’émotion – these are the wines to buy
The core quality of vins d’émotion is that they bring you extraordinary joy and hedonistic thrills.
A wine can be great, yet at the same time not a vin d’émotion. But that term’s rather broad definition means there is no need to look any further for a recommendation.
For me, all wines that evoke these basic emotional responses deserve a recommendation. Does that mean that I will taste some “great” wines, yet not recommend them? Yes. That “greatness” may well be reflected in the points score, but without my emotional hearts, the wine didn’t touch me.
I have four levels of emotional recommendation: from the true – and rare – vin d’émotion to wines with some emotional potential.
A true vin d’émotion – a Burgundy of passion
A truly hedonistic wine – lively and enjoyable
A vivacious wine for pure indulgance
A wine with emotional potential
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Read the original Vin d’émotion article here, and going forward, take these emotional scores as my recommendations, with their strength relative to the emotional content of the wine.
