Friday, July 30, 2010

The Next Big Thing?

Under the heading of the next big thing I found an article in Wine Access touting natural wine bars as the next big thing. These establishments provide wine that has been produced using as little intervention as possible starting with hand-harvested, organically produced grapes moving through vinification without the aid of additives like tannin or enzymes and spurning modern techniques such as micro-oxygenation and reverse-osmosis. All calculated to showcase the quality of the vines and the soil. Sounds like a terroirist's dream doesn't it. The vanguard of these establishments are now the rage in San Francisco, can the pacific northwest and BC be far behind. With bated breath and empty glass I wait for a like-minded adventurer to try this in my neck of the woods. Cheers

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