Comments on: Gaja backs plan for dual Brunello appellation

By: bill

bill — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:37:30 +0000

Not surprising coming from Gaja. He can’t sell all the crap he makes in Bolgheri so why not just cart the juice off to Montalcino and try to sell it as “the Other brunello”

Why not just let one appellation remain the same as it has been and not try to suck every last piece of tradition out of your country for the sake of making a dollar?

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it is just grapejuice » Blog Archive » Angelo Gaja ); — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 19:33:48 +0000

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By: Terry Hughes

Terry Hughes — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:09:49 +0000

Gentlemen, gentlemen — why? Why?

Because even a second-class Brunello will command a higher price than a first-class something else (Montalcino DOC for example.)

By: Paolo B

Paolo B — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:07:42 +0000

Tracie hit the target… when His Holiness says (sorry for the poor translation):

“Today in Montalcino there is a minority that benefits of 2 privileges: of having vines registered to the Albo (of Consorzio di Montalcino aka Brunello) and vines that are able to produce Sangiovese of outstanding levels. Then there is a majority who has just the first of the two privileges… ” . So why you want even call those wines Brunello?

By: Francesco Tonon

Francesco Tonon — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:29:13 +0000

The most confusing thing regarding this story are the arguments Angelo gaja is using to support its proposal, in particular the need to help the producers located in less favourable areas that are unable to produce a decent brunello on a pure sangiovese, but need to blend it with other grapes to make it acceptable. it sounds like the need to compensate these producers vis à vis the producers that have lands more suited for this wine.

If these winegrowers’s land is not well suited for producing brunello they should simply switch to other grapes and produce Tuscan IGT or as Lalau suggests move towards a denomination “Montalcino” but not dilapidate the important credit that Brunello has acquired all over the world to produce a second class Brunello.

By: Lalau

Lalau — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:17:36 +0000

Let us not introduce more confusion in the drinkers’ minds!
If the large producers cannot make proper Brunello, let them do another product under another name. Like there is the Rosso di Montalcino, which allows one to bypass the aging rules, there could be a Montalcino DOC, or whatever name you choose. But I am sure the name Brunello should be reserved for the kind of product we know now, and like, or don’t like.

Hervé Lalau

By: tracie b

tracie b — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 01:32:15 +0000

why are the vineyards which do not possess the correct pedoclimatic conditions for sangiovese even allowed in the disciplina?

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Montalcino: the next step? Angelo Gaja weighs in. « Do Bianchi — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:31:06 +0000

[...] Legendary winemaker Angelo Gaja made news today when he published an open letter calling for changes in Brunello appellation regulations that would allow for the use of grapes other than Sangiovese. I have translated an excerpt at VinoWire. [...]