Comments on: Interview With Alice Feiring http://www.organicwinejournal.com/index.php/2008/05/interview-with-alice-feiring/ Your Guide to Organic, Biodynamic and Natural Wine Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:04:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: tell me about it http://www.organicwinejournal.com/index.php/2008/05/interview-with-alice-feiring/comment-page-1/#comment-301 tell me about it Thu, 05 Jun 2008 02:46:55 +0000 http://www.organicwinejournal.com/?p=240#comment-301 Amy, i totally understand your point of view. The author seems to be preoccupied with some old-fashioned idea of what winemaking is - all romantic and idealistic, divorced from certain realistic aspects of what it means to make wine today. but, hey, your financial issues are not her problem - she wants wine made pure, sorta a wine Rockwell picture... The title is pretty self-involved too Amy,

i totally understand your point of view. The author seems to be preoccupied with some old-fashioned idea of what winemaking is – all romantic and idealistic, divorced from certain realistic aspects of what it means to make wine today. but, hey, your financial issues are not her problem – she wants wine made pure, sorta a wine Rockwell picture… The title is pretty self-involved too

]]> By: amy http://www.organicwinejournal.com/index.php/2008/05/interview-with-alice-feiring/comment-page-1/#comment-299 amy Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:04:01 +0000 http://www.organicwinejournal.com/?p=240#comment-299 I am grossly annoyed by this interview. As a producer, the idea that we have to own vineyards in order to express terroir is ridiculous. Negotiants are not a new concept, and this interview seems to imply that the wine world is going to hell in a handbasket because people buy grapes. It close to impossible for a young person to buy vineyards in order to start a new project... Vineyard land has simply become too expensive. In Santa barbara for instance land can only be sold in 100 acre plots. The author suggests with some cynicism that wine production has become a rich person's game, while simultaneously slamming producers who can't afford to own their own vineyards. I feel she is terribly disconnected to the financial difficulties that come with producing wine. I'm sure she's smart and well traveled, but this is such a turn off..."so the land may go back to the hands of the real winemakers"? Give me a break! The pretension and ignorance is mind numbing. Think I will pass on the book. I am grossly annoyed by this interview. As a producer, the idea that we have to own vineyards in order to express terroir is ridiculous. Negotiants are not a new concept, and this interview seems to imply that the wine world is going to hell in a handbasket because people buy grapes. It close to impossible for a young person to buy vineyards in order to start a new project… Vineyard land has simply become too expensive. In Santa barbara for instance land can only be sold in 100 acre plots. The author suggests with some cynicism that wine production has become a rich person’s game, while simultaneously slamming producers who can’t afford to own their own vineyards. I feel she is terribly disconnected to the financial difficulties that come with producing wine. I’m sure she’s smart and well traveled, but this is such a turn off…”so the land may go back to the hands of the real winemakers”? Give me a break! The pretension and ignorance is mind numbing. Think I will pass on the book.

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