It's elemental: does wine have a language problem?

When it comes to wine-tasting is the fashion for certain words, such as ‘minerality’, a help or a hindrance?There’s always a moment of self-consciousness the first time you use a fancy new description for wine in public. Until you’ve used it a few times without being corrected, you can’t be quite sure you’ve got the meaning right, and you can’t help feeling not just pretentious but fraudulent.Such was the case for me with “minerality”. I can&