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RE: As a winemaker....

Posted by triodesteve on November 1, 2011 at 05:41:57:
Honestly I wouldn't change anything. My style wasn't a marketing choice planned ahead. It just sort of evolved from people I had worked for. You pick up something you either like or don't like from everyone along the way.
I wasn't smart enough to think about a "house style" before I started my brand!

Complexity? This is a tough one...it's based on so many things. On the whole, people pick much riper than in years past. That much is clear. But that can't account for all of the differences. I happen to like some herbal characteristics in my cab.I pick plenty ripe so the herbal notes are site specific, not under ripe fruit. I think in the race for high scoring fruit bombs, winemakers discard those sites that aren't purely fruit driven.
I also think winemakers have used too much new oak covering up all those differing characteristics.
Also picking super ripe leaves the resulting wines unbalanced if you don't correct by adding acid, etc in the fermentor. A highly alcoholic low acid wine is just not going to age at all.

Really, I could go on and on and on!