What Is Meant By Depth?

[Worknman]

I believe complexity means having a multitude of flavors (correct me if Im wrong) but I've never quite understood the meaning of depth in a blend.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

I take it to similar to comparing Coors Light to a Dark Lager. The Dark Lager would have much greater depth of flavor.

 

[sablebrush52]

It means that the blend won't abandon you just because you wear a polka dot sock on one foot, a striped sock on the other, and that your armpit hair gets tangled in your tee shirt.

 

[jttnk]

Good

I take it to similar to comparing Coors Light to a Dark Lager. The Dark Lager would have much greater depth of flavor.

Good analogy. I just experienced something similar to this tasting different whiskeys. Until you try some with little finish and some with long smooth flavorful finish you wouldn’t get it. I didn’t. Interesting to work on developing our tastes.

 

[saltedplug]

Depth of flavor is a sensory impression arrived at by the complex physiology that undergirds taste.

(From an article I wrote.)

"Tastants gathered by the receptors pass to the thalamus that encodes further information about the chemical and physical characteristics of this gustatory stimuli, and passes it to the Gustatory Cortex (GC). “The thalamus is universally acknowledged as GC’s main source of information about the chemical and physical characteristics of gustatory stimuli.

"But once the tastants are coded by the thalamus in the neurology of the GC, the cerebral cortex searches semantic memory for referent experience."

Note that in order to determine taste the taste in question must reference the warehouse of all previous tastes in semantic memory.

In the same way present experience in general must be sorted by discernment, one of the 12 mental factors in Buddhism.

To know current reference the past.

 

[mso489]

The meaning might be variable with context. My sense is that it means you get a range of base notes (strong dark smokey) at the same time you get intermediate, and maybe some sweet higher taste notes. Complexity might occur in various ways, including depth, but might be a cluster of tastes that interplay in a more narrow range. Ain't I fancy? Well, something like that.

 

[Magpiety]

I really like Sutliff Virginia Slices, but they're sort of a one trick pony. Full Virginia Flake has a bunch of flavors to unpack. FVF is deeper.

 

[warren]

In its essence the use of the term is to convey to the reader that the particular author means ,,, well, whatever the reader infers. It's a fuzzy, descriptive term which authors use without giving any idea to the reader what it is they are trying to convey. Too many writers cannot convey clarity of thought. They are usually writing so as to be read, not understood. It's just something a reader must contend with when reading untrained writers who do not know how to "write" an easily understood picture.

Again this is simply my opinion. Many writers have clarity of thought but, no idea how to convey same when putting thoughts into words.

Back in the day when letters were how we conversed over distances, trained writers wrote a letter, set it aside, reread it the next morning, revised/edited the missive until their thoughts were easily discerned. Most of us, using the immediacy of the net, no longer do that. The result is flame wars, misunderstanding, lack of clarity, hurt feelings and so forth. It's simply a part of the times we live in.

 

[logs]

pretty sure it means Nietzsche smoked it while authoring Thus Spake Zarathustra.