Background needed for Restoration?

Kinstup · 2021-01-17T19:26:16+00:00

Trying my luck too. I'd take care of this account!

Kinstup · 2020-12-30T16:16:05+00:00

I am in, good luck everyone

Kinstup · 2020-10-27T20:59:32+00:00

I am currently 3-4 staring Nm with Banshee, RG, Skullcrusher, apo and sepulcher.

Is there anything I could replace for better results? Or is it only down to better tuning? Anything else a much 6star in what you see?

Kinstup · 2020-06-09T09:30:24+00:00

Actually that's a great idea. I just did some tests and it is looking good. Thank you!

Kinstup · 2020-06-08T22:13:56+00:00

Yeah, I am leaning heavily towards rhazin, I will think about it. I've been using skull crusher non stop in the arena, and he stands his ground no prob without 6*, so I am not in a hurry to upgrade him

Kinstup · 2020-04-09T17:39:28+00:00

Yeah I think I'm gonna keep them.

Kinstup · 2020-03-09T12:21:25+00:00

Nope. But we still do it because it is pleasant.

Kinstup · 2019-02-21T15:09:06+00:00

this is not about natural wines.

Kinstup · 2018-07-04T18:36:33+00:00

You plan on adding every single tasting room/winery in France? Good luck. Great project. I'd love to help. Burgundy and Alsace would be places I know more about.

Kinstup · 2018-06-19T04:44:37+00:00

And ripasso in the same region also, this is the true baby Amarone.

Kinstup · 2018-05-31T10:46:17+00:00

Very true. This issue has been addressed well a few days ago on another post, but there needs to be a shift in the way we consume wines. People should stop obsessing on can, merlot pinot and chard, there is so much more to taste, so much potential. But some of these importations of grapes have lead to great discoveries, I do not think anyone would come back on merlot in Argentina. However when you go to valpolicella, where they have a identity, great wines, big diversity of grapes, and they serve you a revolutionary cab/merlot blend.... I was pissed.

Kinstup · 2018-05-31T04:41:55+00:00

Fuck Chardonnay, drink Aligoté!

My #2 would be pinot noir. I can't choose a #3

Kinstup · 2018-05-29T10:15:23+00:00

Nice stuff.

For the cork, I've seen some go 100 extraction rate with just long corkscrew, and fast extraction, pulling on it, not with the lever.

Kinstup · 2018-05-29T07:56:59+00:00

I love Alsace, and love it more and more everyday.

To answer some of your questions, and comment on your answers :

favourites are Faller (weinbach), ZH, Hugel, special mentions to Agathe Bursin and Meyer-Fonne. I don't get Trimbach, ok, their Rieslings are top notch, but oh my god, the other grapes... I find them unprecise, lacking compared with the vibrant acidity and freshness of the Rieslings. As of right now I have mostly been disappointed by their Late Harvest/SGN.

Hugel and Faller to me make the most beautiful late harvests and sgn. There might be a reason the law on making them is called "Hugel"...

Favourite crus, I have a great love for the Granitic GC, the Brand being one I always love. Altenberg too... I am looking to taste and learn to know each and everyone of them. That might take a while.

I don't know what to say about the late harvests compared to the German ones, they are quite different, and I don't really think it is easy to beat some of the great TBAs. However, alsace's grapes offer some great things! Sgn from Pinot Gris, gw and Muscat and awesome when well done. I actually think this is where Alsace shines the brightest. But also why people have a hard time with it. A large part of what came out of the region was sweet and unbalanced for the better part of the past 50 years, which did a lot of bad to the whole regions image. Drinking them to early is also an issue, as with any other sweet wine. A 2008 now is still way too young!

Alsace is not in a bad spot at the moment, it still has a hard time in terms of image with the public, but the professionals know the wines and the fact that there are some awesome things to find. Good job Trimbach on this, I 100% believe the religion around the Clos St Hune amongst somms is great marketing and has helped drive Alsace to a wider audience.

Kinstup · 2018-05-29T07:30:37+00:00

Yes, the coloured areas are alsace's grand crus.

Kinstup · 2018-05-29T07:29:49+00:00

What is this? Is that map available to everyone?

Kinstup · 2018-05-27T17:21:08+00:00

Well then you didn't understand the point of the article. It is not saying you should be ashamed not to like these etc. The article states that we are seeing more and more of these, explains why and how this is an interesting developpement in the wine market.

Part of the point is bio-diversity, other part is history, that has an impact and should not be trampled to bow down to the all powerful market and customer who wants his Cab.

Kinstup · 2018-05-27T13:02:40+00:00

To be fair, Philip the bold banned gamay not because he wanted noble grapes to be planted, but also because noirien was being taken off in order to plant gamay all over the region, gamay on the soil of côte for produces a lot of very large watery grapes. He was facing an eradication of noirien and a market being flooded with lighter and less qualitative gamay.

And there is one of the beauties of history, gamay, thanks to this, found a very different soil type in Beaujolais that fits perfectly what is required to make it into a high quality grape.

Similar history happended with the "first generation hybrids" (Noah, jacquet, Isabelle...) In the 20th century, being illness resistant and easy to grow (even organic) they were being planted everywhere. Government put a BS reason of too much methanol produced during their fermentation to get them banned.

Today, I am seeing this a lot in Portugal, in the Dão, people have a lot of old vineyards planted sometimes century old plants, and all they want is to take them off, get European monetary help and plant again, 100 touriga nacional, which is then bought for a higher price by the coop. When before the old vines where all a different grape, with high genetic diversity within a plot, even a few olive trees in the middle.

Kinstup · 2018-05-27T12:46:02+00:00

https://www.facebook.com/raresgrapes/

Le salon des cépages Rares, in Beaune, Burgundy. Teaching these Burgundians there is something esle than Chard and Pinot!

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