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comnojunk says...

Don't be too disheartened if you cannot identify the range of fruits
etc that other claim to detect. The fruit-basket style of tasting
note is a relatively recent phemononen, and if you compare note from
different notes for the same wine you will often see wildly different
descriptors.

Indeed, don't be too quick to envy the expansive and oft times bombastic
lexicon of the professional reviewer.

One would think that they spend their time going about familiarizing
themselves
with the odour of wet dogs, peeing cats, leather saddles, manure.......you'd
think they'd end up with a dubious reputation and a crick in their necks.

Whenever someone says a sauv blanc smells like cat's pee, I say that I defer
to
their greater experience in smelling said substance. When someone once said
that it TASTED like cat's pee, I had to ask him how he knew!

Do you mean all that time I spent in the barnyard has been a waste? Well, I
won't offer to wash the neighbor's Setter again!G

Hunt