Brainless Wine-making is making wines boring

WINE TALK
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Label whore. [snort.gif]

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John and Tex make a return in the same thread. What type of sign is that? [berserker.gif]

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Nice.

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Bill I believe JZ sell his entire production out of his retail tasting room, no middlemen and pockets all the profits which are very healthy.

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Alan,

while this is no doubt true in some cases I find that today more than ever vineyards have the score potential that is much higher… take wine-maker … Thomas Rivers Brown or TRB … he has done to wine what others just could not do with the very same fruit… he walks the inspirational path as a wine-maker…

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John,

I’m guessing you don’t realize what wine TRB (not TBR) drinks…you might be quite surprised.

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means one thing… 12/21/2012 is on the way…

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Todd,

I listened to him for 1.5 hours on grape radio and he went into great detail about his preferences… that was a great interview…

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So you know he drinks wines that are remarkably different in every way from what he makes, but makes wines that are made in a style that will sell extremely well…so why is his winemaking ‘inspired’ to you?

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Todd,

he listens to each vintage … sometimes he picks 1/3 of the fruit a bit early to give wine crisp acidity and a help give the wine a snap…he then picks the other fruit to blend in with the first crush … this is very inspiring … his natural fermentations due to the right yeast living in his winery that started from a commercial strain is either brilliant or just lucky and I doubt luck has anything to do with it…

his control over the fruit knowing that this is where the wine is made… he will tell his clients that he must control the fruit dam near every aspect of growing or he won’t make the wine… he understands the vineyard and knows that each year he will have to do it different … no cookie cutter wine-maker that’s for sure…

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burn

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Berry,

premature posting… they have a cure for that now… [snort.gif]

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I have no words…none that will help.

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Keep trying, though. It’s good for your brain.

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I have no words…none that will help.

I WILL DRIVE MY POINT FARTHER… he started out as a east coast wine-maker… the man did all he could with what the vineyard gave him and never could get great wines… he moves to Cali… and with great fruit he now understands that Brainless wine-making in Cali was rampant … he also understands anyone making wine on the east coast will never be able to compete with the Cali fruit never make a high scoring wine… this is why after my 20 th commercial vintage I will move to Cali and start making wines that express the Cali fruit that scores so high … this is my 12th year commercially and I do the best I can with our fruit knowing that in time I will make wines that score very high once I move to the source of 100 point fruit is being produced… then I will rock out to a different tune and see what I can come up with… [soap.gif]

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What does that have to do with scores? The OP is obviously a veiled attempt to slap critics and the winemakers that garner 90 points from whomever, whilst JZ gets less than mediocre.

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Ummm…OK.

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I’m being overwhelmed by bull shit in this thread.