"Very good wines are produced in Chile, for example. But they can lack terroir, and terroir is what makes everything." Denise Capbern Gasqueton of Château Calon-Ségur in St Estèphe This ridiculous statement found in a Decanter Magazine story was uttered in response to the study that shows the effects of terroir are greatly overshadowed by the effects of winemaking and grapegrowing techniques. What you are seeing here is the desperate statement of someone who feels their back is against the…
Mr. Huge has done it again! A great post on one of the more absurd and destructive "moments" in wine history and a warning for those who drink in the present.
It’s always nice to have your ideas validated by scientists with a "PhD" after their name. Recently I speculated that the impact of a"terroir" on a wine is most often overshadowed by the hand of the winemaker. I went on to suggest that in fact the winemaking traditions in a given region should be added to the definition of terroir if only because a region’s traditional winemaking techniques (such as using new oak, picking the grapes excessively ripe, extended maceration…
There’s nothing I like more than reading a provocative article in a wine magazine or newsletter, on a wine forum or on a wine blog. Maybe I’m just drawn to hyperbole or controversy. More than anything, I like reading something that gets me thinking. A post by John over at Wine Country Club Blog and a follow up post over at Swirl & Sniff both get me thinking about: Can Wine Bloggers Do Harm? And does it matter? John’s contention…
Wine Writing Ethics. It’s a topic that comes up now and again in the blogosphere as well as in the real world. Some go as far as to suggest that writers who accept press samples are violating they kind of ethics that should govern wine writers. Below is a reprint from the "WINE FLASH" an email newsletter written by W.R Tish. Tish (as nearly everyone calls him) is an accomplished wine writer who has worked on staff at the Wine…
