Nomadic Wines

All wines taste the same... maybe one day

Recently I have been reading opinions about vegetal flaws in wine and the undeniable positive attributes of biodynamic wines.

On one side, there is the perspective that any green tastes or vegetal tastes are flaws derived from unripe grapes. That is one extreme. Another perspective, potentially just as extreme, is that wineries should be non-interventionalists. This point-of-view leads winemakers down the green path of biodynamics.

I have to admit that I am siding more and more with the biodynamic perspective. It is becoming hard to tell where a wine is from because many wines are made in the same modern, ripe style. I still respect the winemakers who are making these modern wines, but I am not interested in buying them. In addition to the monotonous experience this leads to, many of the jammy red wines do not pair well with food.

In reality, I don't think it takes biodynamic farming to make unique wines. Winemakers can make wine that is neither under-ripe nor over-ripe. The problem is that the current trend is towards erring on the side of over-ripe, high alcohol wines. No doubt this is consumer-driven, but I would like to see this change and if the biodynamic movement helps... that doesn't seem so bad.

Labels: biodynamic, editorial, wine

posted by nomadfromcincy @ 4:30 PM