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.
