Comments on: Yarden Katzrin Chardonnay 2003

By: Tzora, Goose Bay, and Rothberg Cellars - Oh my Oh my! « Wine Musings

Tzora, Goose Bay, and Rothberg Cellars - Oh my Oh my! « Wine Musings — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 21:41:58 +0000

[...] and green flavors. The finish and acidic in an almost puckering way. This in contrast to last post’s wine was not overpowering and it did integrate well with the [...]

By: winemusings

winemusings — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 02:51:28 +0000

I have been reading a book by Alice Feiring (http://www.alicefeiring.com/) called “The battle for Wine and Love” and it is down right shocking the amount of manipulation that goes on in the wine industry. Ph is a drop in the bucket in comparison to adding tannin, color, enzymes. I will hopefully blog on this whole thing and on a few wine books I have been reading recently.

But to the issue of the wine – it may have been a bad bottle, all I can comment on is what I drank – I hope to one day drink this bottle again.

Best Wishes

By: winetastingguy

winetastingguy — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 22:38:26 +0000

Nice review David. I need to re-taste this wine as I don’t remember the oak being so overpowering.

I wonder about the excess acid you speak of. I have heard that just about every Israeli winery adds acid. But when questioning some Israel based winemakers about this practice I was told that this is also the norm in places like Australia and California. YES, this surprised me.

The out of balance nature you speak of may be cause for concern, but I wonder if the wine may have been going through a dumb period of sorts…

THANKS.