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The language of wine description struggles with différance, particularly with the deferral part. We are often told that a particular wine has hints of lemon, an after-taste of chocolate. The obvious question is, But which lemon? Which chocolate? Are we talking a Sicilian 1. Columbian or Brazilian. Eager to emphasise the complexity of the wine palate, wine tasters necessarily oversimplify all the other tastes.

If it has hints of chocolate. Which chocolate? If it’s enough to tell me that my wine tastes of chocolate then why wasn’t it enough to let me assume that my wine tastes of wine and leave it at that?

Coffee.

Not to be outdone, with the increasing fetishisation of chocolate, varietals of chocolate are frequently described in the manner borrowed from wine.