Jarring tradition

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Ned Hoey

Ned Hoey
I came across this and hadn't ever heard of it before or of the wines. This years event was just last week. Anybody else? It doesn't look like the wines are bottled or marketed as far as I can tell, they make them and fete with them them till they're gone apparently. I wonder what they're like? It also sounds like while the festival thrives, the skills to make and prepare the jars are disappearing. I guess the mullahs and dogmatists are fine with that.
 
Wowzer.

Everyone caught the Franco Ziliani/Jeremy Parzen writeup of Vinicola Savese, yes? And also this not to be missed snapshot from the Vinicola Savese cellar.

I knew I liked the wines, I knew they tasted different than most, but I didn't put it all together until I read about it.
 
originally posted by Ned Hoey:
Jarring traditionI came across this and hadn't ever heard of it before or of the wines. This years event was just last week. Anybody else?
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Really cool, I'd love to go there. A Portuguese winemaker at one of the Davis seminars on Iberian varieties a while back talked about experimenting with Amphora vinification. He was quite pleased with the results. He said temperature control was easy, you just kept it in a cool cellar and occasionally hosed water over the outside!
 
originally posted by Christian Miller (CMM):
originally posted by Ned Hoey:
Jarring traditionI came across this and hadn't ever heard of it before or of the wines. This years event was just last week. Anybody else?
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Really cool, I'd love to go there. A Portuguese winemaker at one of the Davis seminars on Iberian varieties a while back talked about experimenting with Amphora vinification. He was quite pleased with the results. He said temperature control was easy, you just kept it in a cool cellar and occasionally hosed water over the outside!
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These folks seem way past "experimenting" (like Tiger). It isn't clear however what the wines are actually like, that could explain why no Hipsters have chimed in, then again, Mullahs and Dogmatists may have been obstructing and distracting the Hipsters. I haven't been back to Portugal since my one trip in '85,
I'm ready to return though, even if only to hang out at that "traditional" wine bar.
 
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