“Wine is Like Smoking and Drinking at the Same Time”

Today the Wall Street Journal released a new article about the 2008 Pinot Noirs coming out of California’s Anderson Valley. Apparently because of the severe forest fires of that year these wines are not up to par as far as taste. The weather in this area of California had a lot of lightning strikes that year and caused all this smoke in the air that tainted the grapes. “In wine vernacular, "smoky bacon" is a prized flavor for pinot noir. Not so is ‘wet ashtray,’ which is where the powdered sturgeon bladders come in.”


They have tried everything to get the smoke smell out, even going as far as filtering the wine. Because of this taste winemakers have been selling the wine from this year at a 50% or lower discount than what it should have been.

This just shows how much the weather can affect the taste of the wine and the price that winemakers get for it. To read the rest of the article visit the website below.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB20001424052748704211704575140141004748362.html