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Alan Goldfarb on the generation gap of wine

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.

America (Country Appellation)

There’s a Wine Generation Gap
...I’ve fallen into it and can’t get out

by Alan Goldfarb
April 8, 2008



APPELLATION AMERICA Senior Editor, Alan Goldfarb, has a lot on his mind. In this, the first of his bi-weekly columns, he expounds on the generation-evolving tastes in wine and what he thinks is the loss of meaningful wine appreciation brought on by the ever-increasing pace of our newly emerging digital culture. Whether you think he’s a winer or a whiner, there is no dismissing the cogency of his arguments.

Look for Alan's column every other Tuesday, only at APPELLATION AMERICA.


 Senior-Ed-Alan-Goldfarb.jpg“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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