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In Reply to: RE: That begs another question... posted by jimbill on January 17, 2011 at 09:16:23
I guess because you have more options as a winemaker.
To me winemaking is about the 500 little decisions you make. With Syrah you have even more.
Let me try to explain. I have blocks of a vineyard that I share with other winemakers. We pick on the same day and then the fruit goes to three different wineries. We all know the same basics, but we all individually do things a little different. They don't seem like big things, but they add up and add up until the wine made from those grapes picked on the same day from the same block tastes quite different from each other.
With Syrah, that multiplies. For example, a few years ago I made an "experiment" with one vineyard. I broke up the Syrah into three fermentors and they were all teated differently.
Number 1: destemmed and treated like a "normal lot
Number 2: destemmed but layered with stems to make sort of a layer cake
Number 3: grapes fermented whole cluster on the stem
All three ended up completely unique from the other..to me that;s fun I guess.
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