Jon has an interesting article (to me, anyway) on the parallels of craft beer and wines from GodforsakenGrapes:
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It’s a theme that he’s explored before, but the association w/ craft beer is a new one.
Tom
The connection between craft beer and the “new” wine movement(s) seems tenuous at best. “On the back of this one bottle, they use the words ‘Bottle Conditioned’ and that’s what some beer bottles say. QED.”
I haven’t read much Bonné before so please excuse my possibly stupid question, but is he one of the anti-Parker-at-any-cost group? He seems to be railing against him pretty heavily, which IMO, just continues to give Parker’s “flat-out wrong” words legs.
I can’t recall how Bonne reacts to Parker in general. I read this as more a validation that the average drinker, reader & writer aren’t drinking the wines Parker praises largely because Parker has (directly or indirectly) helped price them out of most wallets & shrink availability. I don’t think he paints a clear enough picture of the beer world though. I think a spot in Portland Oregon where one can walk between the Cascade barrel house which primarily focuses on American Wild/Sour beers & Hair of the Dog brewery which creates old world ales which defy description.
Nobody is making a qualitative ranking on whether or not these are “inferior” styles to say IPA or Stout. They just choose to focus on different things. I read Bonne saying that it would be welcome to visit wineries & have a different drinking experience at each rather than visit 10 wineries in a day & taste 10 different takes on Bordeaux blends & Chardonnay.
Nope…no question is “stupid”, Kyle.
Jon does not care much for the big-fruit/oaked/alcoholic style of wines, particularly NapaCabs, that Parker has embraced. I don’t so much think Bonne is anti-Parker (the man)
as he is anti-Parker (the wine style). Other people, however, have a different take on Bonne’s writings, and would probably put him in an anti-Parker box. “Boxes…little boxes…”.
This article is a slightly different riff on a theme Jon has written on before. In this case, in invokes, more than usual, some of the stupid stuff Parker has spewed on-line, to
make his point. I frequently will refer to a wine from Raboso or Rossette as a “god-forsaken” grape, mocking Parker’s diatribe that Jon describes. If that makes me “anti-Parker”,
then I guess you can put me in the same little box w/ Jon.
Tom
As always, thanks for the info, Tom. I understand a little tongue-in-cheek reference to the “god-forsaken” varieties. This read a little more heavy-handed than that, but it may not have been, of course.
I completely agree that Parker has had some really asinine diatribes, the one referenced being one of them. I’m just not sure using one of them as the jumping off point for this article was an effective use of that tongue-in-cheek humor, if indeed that’s what he was going for.
Your box will be delivered sometime early next week. 
I thought the craft beer comparison was pretty interesting. There’s a lot of talk in wine circles about losing market share to craft beers, etc. so it was timely as well.
Having said that, I guess I am not so sure about the newness of the whole “movement.” I mean, does anyone remember the Carmenet Napa Colombard? Or the Limerick Lane Furmint? We’ve made a Pinot Meunier for years and have made a Leon Millot, a Counoise, and some other odd stuff…the list goes on and on.
Adam Lee
Siduri Wines