Τον περασμένο Φεβρουάριο στο Jura, είχα την τύχη να γνωρίσω την Rachel Signer, εκδότρια του περιοδικού Pipette -the indie mag about natural wines.
Ανάμεσα στα πολλά ενδιαφέροντα που περιλαμβάνει το 2ο τεύχος, έχει μια συνέντευξη της Αμερικανίδας δημοσιογράφου και συγγραφέα Alice Feiring, που έγινε γνωστή με το πρώτο της βιβλίο “The Battle for Wine and Love: Or How I Saved the World from Parkerization.”.
Ρωτάνε λοιπόν την Alice: How do you feel about the explosion of natural wine fairs like RAW and sort of pup cultural appropriation of natural wine?
Και απαντάει: When I look and see how many people are enjoying wine at RAW, I think it’s great. It’s actually revitalizing the wine world. I don’t think it’s so good for the winemakers. They feel the pressure to show up, and it’s expensive for them. In some places it makes sense, like when it went to Berlin it changed things, but I don’t think NY or LA needs it. It’s fun, but it will, at the point, bottom out. Standards are being lost and it will stop being meaningful and segue out into something more commercial. But right now, it’s doing a lot for wine. What I don’t like is that natural wine is being reduced to a style, and there’s a new drinker that expects natural wine to be cloudy and funky and fucked up. That is dangerous.

Τα είπε όλα σε λίγες γραμμές. Υπέροχη.

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