Saturday, November 16, 2019

The sham of authentic winemaking


Certainly, sometimes the "speech" is very weak ... everything that today is considered traditional, even "classic", one day was revolutionary.

Very interesting article (try the link below)...especially nowadays that everyone is making "bottled landscapes"
The sham of authentic winemaking 

It is rightly called into question, in my opinion, the concept of "authenticity" ... I would prefer to speak of "honesty", understood as the act of making the best possible wine according to what you know and can do, knowing that you know little and never considering "market" criteria, but what you think is the best possible wine.

With the utmost respect for Telmo, for me it represents a bit of an already outdated concept of "flying winemaker": a little art, a little ego, a little genius, a little commercial... by the way, I have never tasted a Telmo's wine who evolves well...

What is the "authentic" Barolo today? Is Elio Altare still a "revolutionary"? Are there still two big "Traditional versus Modern" blocks in Barolo?


Old and New World? In the photograph, "authentic" wines appear?

Moral: I'm sure you've heard more than once an industrial manufacturer that manufactures huge quantities, talk about crafts, handmade and romanticism like that ... coherent?

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