Comments on: Good Sense from Dr. Debs http://biggerthanyourhead.net/2008/03/16/good-sense-from-dr-debs/ Tue, 22 May 2012 19:59:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Dr. Debs http://biggerthanyourhead.net/2008/03/16/good-sense-from-dr-debs/comment-page-1/#comment-67785 Dr. Debs Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:55:59 +0000 http://biggerthanyourhead.net/2008/03/16/good-sense-from-dr-debs/#comment-67785 I sure hope Kimberly is right about the rumblings--and I certainly keep gamely drinking on. Thanks, Fred. I feel safer with you minding my back, but I think I'll still sit with my back to the wall when I eat out in Napa. I sure hope Kimberly is right about the rumblings–and I certainly keep gamely drinking on.

Thanks, Fred. I feel safer with you minding my back, but I think I’ll still sit with my back to the wall when I eat out in Napa.

]]> By: Kimberly http://biggerthanyourhead.net/2008/03/16/good-sense-from-dr-debs/comment-page-1/#comment-67525 Kimberly Sun, 16 Mar 2008 21:44:42 +0000 http://biggerthanyourhead.net/2008/03/16/good-sense-from-dr-debs/#comment-67525 But I just got a wonderful 2005 Vosne-Romanee (village, not a growth) for a great price (I think in US dollars it was something in the neighborhood of $25) and it very much reflects the terroir. There are still great wines to be had in Burgundy, the Rhone, the Loire, etc. with a sense of place; super-saturation has taken hold more in Bordeaux where the concentration has always been on a regional style and catering to the market. As a US example, down the road from me in Rutherford 75% of the wines taste like prunes and a kick in the nuts, but some of the wines made by the vintners under their own labels are splendid and much cheaper. Don't give up. There are rumblings in the underground about all of this. Sooner or later it'll snowball just like the oak-effect did some years ago. The tides will turn. But I just got a wonderful 2005 Vosne-Romanee (village, not a growth) for a great price (I think in US dollars it was something in the neighborhood of $25) and it very much reflects the terroir. There are still great wines to be had in Burgundy, the Rhone, the Loire, etc. with a sense of place; super-saturation has taken hold more in Bordeaux where the concentration has always been on a regional style and catering to the market. As a US example, down the road from me in Rutherford 75% of the wines taste like prunes and a kick in the nuts, but some of the wines made by the vintners under their own labels are splendid and much cheaper.

Don’t give up. There are rumblings in the underground about all of this. Sooner or later it’ll snowball just like the oak-effect did some years ago. The tides will turn.

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