If composers were wine

While typing another entry listening to Mozart's 38th (symphony, as a moment's recollection reveals he only wrote 27 piano concertos), it was suddenly obvious that Mozart is Riesling. Always welcome with a crystal clarity and lightness. Ageless. Impossible not to like.

And Beethoven is a big cabernet sauvignon. And that would make Brahms as a massive Syrah. Bach? that would be a not too heavily oaked Chardonnay. The heavily oaked chard would be Schumann. Schumann is clearly a white, no?

Let's reverse the view.... zinfandel is Tchaikovsky or Rachmaninov... not always balanced or sublime, but a lot of fun and great at it best. A tart, bracing Sauvignon Blanc would be Prokoviev, but this analogy isn't perfect.

The rest will take some thinking. For example, who is Malbec? And the big one ... is who is Pinot Noir?