Vin Rosé

Recently, I had two to start up the summer which has yet been rather cool one. The first was from legendary AOC Tavel which I would classify near Provence or is the Provençal style is close to Tavel: Low acidity, high alcohol level with intense fruit. The other rosé style is more about the crispness that is gotten from the high acidity and not trying to stuff too much fruit in to the wine. Maybe it has something to do with the cepages as well.

Chateau de Ségriès from Tavel can attract people. A very modern touch. It has an intense pink color with strawberry aromas as intense as the color. Well made wine. A bit lazy I think. I'm getting tired of these modern fruity wines but still I rather liked it.

Jean-Marc Burgaud's Rosez! was a post modern one. Elegant light color just a dash of reddish. The intensity of the fruit is light with more about minerality and crispness than fruit. Complexity was revealed gradually. Which, combined with the lightness and high evaporation made you want to take another sip before it would disappear! A beauty.

Imitating or hoaxing

German riesling

What makes wine spoofed? Comparing riesling to pinot noir can I claim that riesling is more spoofed wine? It has to be filtered and heavily sulfured to avoid unwanted secondary and/or malolactic fermentations in bottle. The suggested maximum yield is much more higher for riesling than pinot noir. What about the style wanted? Does riesling have too many styles? Does it need so many styles? Can the kellermeister or weinmacher believe they can produce 6 or more different styles of wine from the same riesling, vineyard, year alternating the hanging time of the grapes. Is there a style that is better than the rest? Can you make good spätlese trocken in Mosel? Is this varying styles spoofing also? Should we just drink traditional Spanish reds from old vines and pruned to natural low yield combined long aging to reduce the needs to manipulate the wine.

Is riesling morally better than Bordeaux?

Yesterday I had a middle aged spätlese trocken from Kesselstatt from Piesport Goldtröpfchen of Mosel. It was definitely well made wine but something normally associated to other german wine regions. An imitation,show off or just marketing? World of riesling is complex but somewhere inside lies the fascination but it's a very spoofed but what isn't.