Bill Hooper wrote:Kelly Young wrote:Bill Hooper wrote:
A lot of producers are also trying to simplify the range of offerings. Not many producers want a wine list with 40 different wines on it- It gets redundant to list a kabi, Spätlese and Auslese trocken from 6 different vineyards.
Cheers,
Bill
But I thought part of the whole idea of fine wine, certainly for most folks who value the idea of terroir (sorry I know that's a whole 'nother discussion), is to differentiate the Dieserkleinishceweinberg Sonnenuhr Auslese Trocken from the Dasandereweinberg Himmelreich Auslese Trocken.
Thats not what I mean. We love to make single vineyard wines (as long as the vineyard is interesting) but without Prädikat, the vineyard becomes the focus, not the 5 or six different wines made from it Kabinett thru TBA. One could even go so far as to say that producing 6 different Prädikat wines from a single source diminishes the influence of terroir. No one is going to harvest all of the vinegar and botrytis and throw it into the press with the healthy grapes in search of ‘true terroir’ of course.
Cheers,
Bill
There's another thing I don't get here. Why not produce just one wine from the site, if that's what you really want to do, but give it the appropriate "prâdikat", as Bürklin-Wolf used to do? It wouldn't at all diminish the focus on the vineyard, it would give more information to the consumer and would mesh in with the prädikat system rather than compete with it.