Suckling vs. Sadat X (the F****d Up Factor)

 Deep Throat called me, breathed heavilly into my phone and said, Alice, babe, you know what  you should do?"

I couldn't resist. He/She was really correct. 

I have found the James Suckling video's, (where he goes on a points rampage, sizing all wines up by numbers, saying tea, sweet jam and cigar box) too disturbing to watch. In what I had seen the  ego and status driven episodes were a compression of vapid, superficial culture.

 But when my Deep Throat,  suggests I have to watch the segment  where James enters a shop off of an LA highway, where the owner gives him a Zaccagnini, well, out of respect for our friendship, I do.

I personally have not had this Contadina Zaccagnini, a Montepulciano d'Abruzzo, (not a vino nobile)  in over a decade.I have nothing invested in the wine nor do I have an opinion. (Not exactly true, but I won't comment on its flavor.)

I suggest you watch them both; in Jame's video, if you manage to get  through the  1st quarter of the tape, you'll arrive to the handing off of the  Contadina Zaccagnini.

http://www.jamessuckling.com/retail-tasting-2020-wine-company.html

(The previous wine JS described as having an oily in the texture? I would have tossed that one, but James  rated it a 90+. Even if a wine had olive oil floating on top, it shouldn't taste oily.)

Now, the second wine? THE montepulciano...the Zaccagnini  "I'm  90 on this, great buy."

(what is the difference between a 90 point $18 dollar bottle of wine and a 90 points bottle @ $350?)

Now,  there's  Sadat X,  "A nice good smooth wine with an oak stick." --love that stick.

Who will you believe for that fucked up factor?  5+.  

 

   

 

 

Comments

[Alfonso Cevola]

My buds at Zaccagnini loved Sadat X's review when it came out.

Has it gotten down to this, that James Suckling can walk in a store and like the Amazing Kreskin, put the bottle in his hands and determine the quality (as evidenced in his world by a score or 90 or more?)

Jeesh - our world is really missing the point when it all comes done to them.

[Personalwinebuyer]

Aromatics of dog vomit and baby poo. A tour de force of cultural swill with copious amounts of useless and obnoxious blather....12 points bro, I am being conservative.

[Terje Meling]

You should post a warning next to the Suckling-link: Contains scenes of shocking banality and unabashed anti-intellectualism!

The video made me feel like I was watching a Todd Solondz movie. It's funny, but so tragic that you feel too embarrassed to laugh.

[Alicefeiring]

Funny up to a point, then the tragedy comes in. But Solondz's films also have heart, and that's a big point of difference. This to me was more like the part of Greenaway's films (Belly of an Architect and The Cook the Thief..) when I must cover my eyes or leave the room.