2001 Allegrini Volpolicella Classico

[Botafogo]

>> What ANNOYS me, and always will, is the rigidity of assumptions made about what wines from those areas SHOULD taste like. <<

Steve, it is SO easy:

If a wine wants to use the NAME of a famous zona with a history and style associated with it then it MUST taste like that. If Sandrone and Altare want to make Nebbiolo IN the Barolo Zona that is jet black and 15% alcohol and tastes like Aussie Shiraz I thoroughly encourage them to do so, charge $500 dollars a bottle for it and get rich. BUT, they should also admit it is NOT Barolo, name it after their dog, their favorite Abba song or their grandmother and quit trying to have their cake and eat it too.

Perhaps we should adopt the conventions of the music world. We could have Roots Barolo, Crossover Barolo, Lite and Easy Barolo and Adult Contemporary Commercial Barolo???? Then at least you might have an idea of what you were getting when you bought a bottle of wine with a DOC(G) designation. After all, how would you feel if you bought a CD labeled as "Classic Country: The Bakersfield Sound" and it had Shania Twain doing a Techno version of "Six Days on the Road" and Billy Idol doing a heavy metal reading of "Okie from Muskogie"?

Roberto


[This message has been edited by Botafogo (edited 04-20-2003).]