Comments on: Eco-wines in the tasting glass on September 12 [Chicago]

By: Dylan

Dylan — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 19:43:49 +0000

I was just reading about this subject on Alder’s blog. He raised an interesting concept in that it would be nice to sample wines from the same vineyards in which one half was farmed organically, the other, with biodynamics. The end goal would be tasting comparisons over multiple vintages between the two. Which produces a better wine?

By: Ken Taylor

Ken Taylor — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 18:02:50 +0000

Taste buds gone wild! Give consumers good information and they will make good choices. Screw caps and crown caps educate the consumer and give the consumer a choice. Claude Boisset and Carol Duval-Leroy have got it right.
What’s wrong with this picture?

Engage the brain on the closure first and the buds on the wine second. Outcomes will be better.

It doesn’t matter how good or natural or organic unless that wine gets into the consumer’s glass.

Denis Varnier says he puts all his love of winemaking into the consumer’s glass. Maybe he gets as far as disgorgment.

By: Weston

Weston — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 05:21:30 +0000

natural wine! 10tons a acre 200ha/hl ? thats natural wine. Plant it do nothing let the leaves cover the grapes so the tannins don’t even ripen! thats the way to do it naturally

By: Mark Ashley

Mark Ashley — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 02:48:50 +0000

Will you be burying a bull’s horn, filled with manure, in one corner of the room?

By: Laurie

Laurie — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 01:57:36 +0000

Oh sure… I’ll finally be in New York and you go and take your act to Chicago!

By: Grant

Grant — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 01:47:30 +0000

Tyler,

This should be fascinating. Could be a bit heated too, especially when the debate delves into the ‘passionate belief vs economic benefit’ polemic.

Cheers