Wind is changing everywhere and it’s turning against the ideological or religious idea of natural Wine. You can see it everywhere, for example on Instagram where an increasing number of influencers and Wine makers write posts against natural Wine. this would have been simply unimaginable two years ago The fact that those people take these positions says a lot about the new trend.
To be entirely honest we have also to admit that the so-called conventional wines today are the result of increasingly less intrusive ways of Wine making. We are probably learning from both sides and also learning to avoid avoid both excesses.
I am pretty positive that today’s and tomorrow Wines will be way better than what we’ve been drinking lately. We are simply learning and improving.
Science is just as faith-based as any religion. I'll post soon an excerpt from The Myth of Science on this subject. That's not a bad thing, but it helps to be honest about what you know from your own experience and what you are trusting the wisdom of others. This is how fallacies in hypothesis testing have gone unchallenged for a century despite their origins in discredited eugenics.
I witnessed a similar shift in the (albeit much smaller) world of Italian cider. It was only a few years ago that the first ever Italian cider event was held (since it had been made illegal just over 100yrs prior by Mussolini - something I have written an article about). Some of the producers were winemakers who had begun experimenting with apples, others were beer brewers had their own thoughts on where the "too much VA" line was, needless to say nobody had a clear idea of what they were supposed to do and there was a lot of volatility (and not only). Skip forward a few years to 2025 and a new leaf has been turned. Sure, the "brewer mentality" still seemed to be something along the lines of "if this goes "wrong", what can we blend it with to try and make it "interesting"" but the across the board everything was much more under control and some producers had even decided to discard certain cuvees that they thought weren't up to scratch - something that would've been unthinkable a few years prior.
There's still a long way to come, not least in educating Italians on what cider actually is, but I think it will prove a very interesting market as climates get warmer
I also wrote about this great session. Part 1 is here...https://organicwineuncorked.substack.com/p/opus-one-at-a-natural-wine-festival. Part 2 coming soon.
Wind is changing everywhere and it’s turning against the ideological or religious idea of natural Wine. You can see it everywhere, for example on Instagram where an increasing number of influencers and Wine makers write posts against natural Wine. this would have been simply unimaginable two years ago The fact that those people take these positions says a lot about the new trend.
To be entirely honest we have also to admit that the so-called conventional wines today are the result of increasingly less intrusive ways of Wine making. We are probably learning from both sides and also learning to avoid avoid both excesses.
I am pretty positive that today’s and tomorrow Wines will be way better than what we’ve been drinking lately. We are simply learning and improving.
People get science and religion all mixed up sometimes!;)))
Science is just as faith-based as any religion. I'll post soon an excerpt from The Myth of Science on this subject. That's not a bad thing, but it helps to be honest about what you know from your own experience and what you are trusting the wisdom of others. This is how fallacies in hypothesis testing have gone unchallenged for a century despite their origins in discredited eugenics.
Dotage, although dosage wouldn't be misplaced.
I now have to say Clark, in your dosage, you've become a natural man, M A N
I was ever thus. Just never to the detriment of competent winemaking for dogmatic religious reasons.
"Low intervention doesn't mean low attention!"
I witnessed a similar shift in the (albeit much smaller) world of Italian cider. It was only a few years ago that the first ever Italian cider event was held (since it had been made illegal just over 100yrs prior by Mussolini - something I have written an article about). Some of the producers were winemakers who had begun experimenting with apples, others were beer brewers had their own thoughts on where the "too much VA" line was, needless to say nobody had a clear idea of what they were supposed to do and there was a lot of volatility (and not only). Skip forward a few years to 2025 and a new leaf has been turned. Sure, the "brewer mentality" still seemed to be something along the lines of "if this goes "wrong", what can we blend it with to try and make it "interesting"" but the across the board everything was much more under control and some producers had even decided to discard certain cuvees that they thought weren't up to scratch - something that would've been unthinkable a few years prior.
There's still a long way to come, not least in educating Italians on what cider actually is, but I think it will prove a very interesting market as climates get warmer
I learned a great new term today.
"Conspicuous minimalism": The non-ownership of material goods flaunted as a token of moral and intellectual superiority.
— Douglas Coupland, Generation X (1991)