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SFGate has an article about low-intervention winemaking.
It wasn’t entirely unexpected that during my travels with vineyard hunter Tegan Passalacqua for Sunday’s column, he suggested that the best way to showcase great vineyards is to keep winemaking to a bare minimum. That point of view is behind the efforts to make would-be natural wines, but it is also held by a broader set of believers who do more than pay lip service to the belief that, yes, great wine is made in the vineyard.
Passalacqua, however, is a bit of a purist on the matter. He asserts that wines should be made without the routine chemistry tweaks that have come to be a way of life in California. It would ensure that grapes are grown properly and picked at the right time.
“If you don’t add water and you don’t add acid,” he suggested, “you’re not going to make the same mistake twice.”
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