Has anyone ever tried to catalogue some of the flavor profiles of the varietal strains at Foundation Plant Services?
Here is a list of their current offerings:
Chardonnay [62 strains?] & Pinot Noir [76 strains?] look absolutely hopeless to me - you could spend a entire lifetime just pondering one of those varietals.
But take something a little more manageable, like, say, Syrah & Shiraz:
Syrah: 04, 05, 07, 08, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, ENTAV-INRA ® 99, ENTAV-INRA ® 100, ENTAV-INRA ® 300, ENTAV-INRA ® 471, ENTAV-INRA ® 525, ENTAV-INRA ® 877
Shiraz: 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09
Has anyone ever tried to figure out which one of those is going to taste the most like a Mollydooker Velvet Glove, and which one is going to taste the most like a Guigal La Mouline?
Or take Riesling as another example:
Riesling: 01, 04, 09, 10, 12, 17, 19, 20, 21, 22
Which one of those might taste like a JJ Prum Wehlener Sonnenuhr, or a Helmut Donnhoff Hermannshohle, or a Trimbach CFE, or a Hirtzberger Singerriedel?
And, in general, is this stuff common knowledge, or is it closely-guarded “Inside Baseball” proprietary value-added deep voodoo [no padawan apprentices allowed]?
Thanks.