Carol, I know exactly what you mean. I think that in the process of trying to describe something so elusive, phrases like that just pop out. Has nothing to do with 'snobbery', has everything to do with honesty.

'Roundness' is another phrase that comes to my mind in connection with some wines- it goes along with full bodiedness, I suppose, but it's more like saying there is nothing lacking.


JimmyT, the Willamette Valley is my home region. About the first vineyard that was planted there was at Amity, my hometowm. (I always say that McMinnville is my hometown but that's only because Mac is bigger and only 7 miles away.) Lots of vineyards in the area now.