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hedonistic: Certain styles of wine are meant to be inspected; they are introspective and intellectual wines. Others are designed to provide sheer delight, joy, and euphoria.
HEDONISTIC
Hedonistic wines can be criticized because in one sense they provide so much ecstasy that they can be called obvious, but in essence, they are totally gratifying wines meant to fascinate and pleasure at its best.
Mondavi Napa Valley (the regular bottlings run around $25, while the Reserve bottlings run around $125; some think this wine has been on the decline in recent years/vintages--Robert Parker, for one, thinks the Mondavi wines lack the hedonistic, ...
They are textured, rich, may we suggest even hedonistic? Compared to the wines of decades long since disappeared, dilute efforts that they were, weak in colour and character, thin and emaciated, today's wines seem to win hands down.
And Robert Parker described pinot noir in Parker's Wine Buying Guide: "When it's great, pinot noir produces the most complex, hedonistic, and remarkably thrilling red wine in the world..."
References ...
Yes, I'm a certified sommelier and was named the World's Best Wine Writer at the World Food Media Awards. Blah, blah, blah. What really matters is that I know which wines can increase your hedonistic happiness... a lot.
 See also: Region, Style, Quality, Vineyard, Vintage
  
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