brettanomyces
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Brett May Not Be The Enemy (Talking Brett With MW Christy Canterbury, And Tasting WineSmith’s Crucible)
I’ve long waged a sort of mini-war (no height jokes!) on brettanomyces. Equating it to barnyard, horse sweat, and Band-Aid stinkiness in vino, as someone who’d personally rather go for the naked, unabashed, nowhere-to-hide purity of wines like Mosel Riesling over the bombast of overdone…
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Weekly Wine Quiz: Hold Your Nose!
Welcome to the Weekly Wine Quiz, peoples. Based on feedback from ever-so-vocal-and-intelligent peeps like you, I supply the quiz question each week, but do *not* supply the quiz answer directly in the post. That’s because YOU are supposed to supply the answer in the comments,…
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The Single Most Important Piece Of Wine News In Decades Is…
…This. No, I’m not kidding. The fact that the Australian Wine Research Institute researches have sequenced the Brettanomyces genome is, potentially, the single most important piece of news to hit the wine world since it was discovered that malolactic fermentation could be controlled. In terms…
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Am I Alone In Thinking That Brett Is A Flaw?
Ok. I know I’m not totally alone in thinking that Brett is a flaw. Or at least I’m pretty sure I’m not alone. Helloooooooooo? Is anyone out there….??? The minor bought of vinous paranoia has to do with what seems like my inclusion in rarefied…
