Archive for the ‘Terroir’ Category
More fun with Appellation America’s Satellite Imagery and Google Earth. This is fun. Let’s do this, EMAIL me your best wine related satellite imagery and I’ll post it here at Fermentation with credit. Try to keep the images relatively small in file size and no more than 6 inches wide. Atlas Peak vineyards above Napa Valley The heart of Carneros Dominus Estate in Yountville Piesport in th Mosel Chateau Lafite Rothschild Mondavi Woodbridge Domain Drouhin, Oregon
I think we can all agree that wine labels should not misrepresent what’s in the bottle by printing place names and appellations on them when none of the wine in the bottle came from that place or appellation. This is the position of The Center For Wine Origins, an organization begun by the vintners in Champagne, Portugal and Jerez, takes and promotes. In fact, just today they released a statement concerning the Federal Governments most recent pronouncements on the issue…
What say we just take the final and most logical next step here in America and simply abandon the idea of appellations and America Viticultural Areas altogether. I read, thanks to Benson Marketing’s handy "Enews Monitor", of a development that is completely contrary to the entirely reasonable, historically verified and venerable notion that wine is defined by the place the grapes are grown. First, it appears that the Federal Government is set to expand in size the already ludicrously large…
Isn’t it interesting which wine stories tend to get picked up outside the food pages? Today the story with a wine focus that seems to be picked up all over the place is THIS ONE about a Catholic Church official who has planted a vineyard in a graveyard…not OVER the graves, but next door. This quote from the story making the rounds is the epitome of referencing the elephant in the room without actually mentioning the elephant:"While planting so close…
By my reckoning and perspective, both personal and from within the industry, the biggest issue facing the wine business is the emergence of high alcohol wines as the norm. This was why I included two questions about them this blogs recent "Tough Wine Questions" survey. I could, and probably should, have included more questions on the the topic. If it’s not clear, I should spell out my general objections to the trend that is higher and higher alcohol levels in…
