Is it terroir?

originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
originally posted by kirk wallace:
Maybe 2 years old, almost, but ...http://winedisorder.com/comment/56/3823/?all=true#57250
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Thanks. Wish there was some Disorderly Discussion, though.
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The wine (at least the vintage I had, which I guess was '09) is deliciousness and weightlessness in a bottle: hints of strawberry and minerality; ripe but not sweet. But I have not seen it for sale in NYC.
 
Nop. At least for me.
This experimental viticulture, based on Bill Molisson and Miguel Altieri theories and Masanobu Fukuoka's experiments and philosophy and vastly inspired by Didier Barouillet work at Clos Roche Blanche.
Period, so far.
With facinating perspectives as a grower. I wish I had begun this 20 years ago with considerably more financial means.
 
OK, I'll take a stab. The traditional belief is that varietals are better suited for expressing terroir because one doesn't have to parse what flavor components come from the blend. But a field blend like this, where you have many different varities in small (even unknown) percentages, might be an even better way to go. Then you're working with "everygrape," and don't have to deal with the nature of any individual one. Not to mention that field blends are the only kind occuring in nature, monovarietal vineyards being man-made. Discuss among yourselves; I don't want any part of this.
 
One could reference Deiss in a discussion like this. But since I don't especially care for the wines I'll pass on doing so.
 
Thank you, Eric. From the little I have read I can perhaps see how Fukuoka's teachings would be simpatico with Permaculture principles.

Does the varying conditions of the vines -- some ripen early, some ripen late, some stand up, some lean over, some rot easily, some never do, etc. -- make it hard to harvest?
 
No. We use pruners.
And we harvest always during the last lune descendante of september or the first of october. No brix control... some grape are very ripe some very unripe.
 
Thank you, Eric. Two more questions, if I may.

So many varieties... do you expect them all to survive, or will the assertive ones extinguish the quiet ones?

I imagine that this experiment will emphasize vintage differences because other variables are being controlled - the place is the place (give or take erosion and other slow changes) and the 'mixed chorus' of vines will each add its (genetically-determined) part. Is that what you are finding?
 
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