Hugel Gentil 2006

Boy am I glad for tonight.

I entered into this whole blogging thing with one distinct prejudice, that red wine is good and white wine is not as good. I don't say that as a universal absolute, it's merely my opinion. But while it is my opinion that red wine is better than white wine, I usually prefer that people who say differently stand far, far away from me. I'm happy in my little world of red wine superiority and, while I believe that everyone has the right to their own opinion, I really only care to hear mine. So you can sit in the dining room and sip your chardonnay with all the fish eaters. I'll be in the kitchen, with the cool folks, eating a burger. A veggie burger, granted. With little sprigs of mint. But still, I'll eat it raw and drink my pinot noir straight from the bottle.

Anyway, that's how we roll where I come from. So the last few weeks have been troubling as Hell. First we sampled our favorite, the Amaicha Torrontes and I started to think damn, maybe I do like white wine. That was followed by the Fetzer Gewurztraminer and I started to get worried. Then came Clean Slate Riesling which, while not as good as the other two, still capped a consistent streak for white wines sampled on this blog. At the same time, we've been reviewing mediocre red after mediocre red. So I have been on the brink of conversion.

But no more. Tonight it's Hugel Gentil 2006, replete with the syrupyness I've always found such a turn off with white wines. Whew. All is right with the universe.

If you like whites, you'll like it, I guess. But you'll like the others better.

5 out of 10.

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