Interesting post. As a maker of many single-vineyard Cab Francs at Steven Kent Winery, my take is that it is not an issue of “better” or even one of specificity necessarily. It’s more a story about the people who farm that Faulknernian “postage stamp” of soil. How did they get there, doing that thing? How does their effort affect mine in the cellar? I think this is the true and deep value of these wines.
Interesting. That's not a perspective I thought much about in this post, probably because I have very limited contact with the people who are doing the farming, and their story is rarely available to consumers, unfortunately. But it's definitely an additional value of single vineyard wines! Thanks.
Interesting post. As a maker of many single-vineyard Cab Francs at Steven Kent Winery, my take is that it is not an issue of “better” or even one of specificity necessarily. It’s more a story about the people who farm that Faulknernian “postage stamp” of soil. How did they get there, doing that thing? How does their effort affect mine in the cellar? I think this is the true and deep value of these wines.
Interesting. That's not a perspective I thought much about in this post, probably because I have very limited contact with the people who are doing the farming, and their story is rarely available to consumers, unfortunately. But it's definitely an additional value of single vineyard wines! Thanks.