[Growwine] Vintages don't matter anymore

[terry.rayner@sympatico.ca]

Hey Larry, you can't really call your "water wine" wine since the definition 
of wine is:
1) beverage made of the fermented juice of any of various kinds of grapes, 
usually containing from 10 to 15 percent alcohol by volume.
2) A beverage made of the fermented juice of any of various other fruits or 
plants.
3) The expressed juice of grapes, esp. when fermented; a beverage or liquor 
prepared from grapes by squeezing out their juice, and (usually) allowing it 
to ferment

Which fruit did you extract the water from and deacidify / dechaptilize??

Terry




>From: "Larry Paterson" <littlefatwino1 at cogeco.ca>
>Reply-To: growwine at littlefatwino.com
>To: <growwine at littlefatwino.com>
>Subject: [Growwine] Vintages don't matter anymore
>Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 08:16:27 -0500
>
>http://www.decanter.com:80/news/155385.html                has an 
>interesting story from Decanter by Hugh Johnson (no not our 
>beard-challenged lurker, the Englishman whose eyebrows wiggle like a 
>butterfly about to take off and you can't take your eyes off them when near 
>him!).  He states that vintages don't matter anymore.
>
>Food for discussion?  I believe that he is right - but again he misses the 
>main contributory factor - the incredible effects of the modern additives.  
>I think I could turn old sock wine into something approximating mass-market 
>Aussie Shiraz with food colour and enough Tanin Plus!  (Maybe I should try 
>this with my actively fermenting water wine???)
>
>I disagree with him in our cold climate situations or minimalist growing, 
>but certainly the more moderate the climate the less important vintage 
>variation has become...
>
>
>Lardy
>
>Larry Paterson, lfw, rd, adcc
>(Little Fat Wino, Roving Drunk, Alcohol Distribution Channels Critic)
>
>http://www.littlefatwino.com/


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