Unfiltered Wine?

[Bucko]

My take on the issue is that one certain person in the wine writing industry has touted the unfiltered, unfined wines, and denigrated filtered/fined wines. Now when people see unfiltered, they think that this MUST be a better wine. This is not necessarily true. The French have been fining wines for 200 years, and all of their wines are certainly garbage <sarcasm>. Yes, unfiltered wines may be less stripped of all of those microcomponents that end up making a wonderful wine, but lightly filtered or fined wines are just fine as well. I have to agree that "Unfiltered/Unfined" has of late become a marketing tool, not that that is a bad thing.

Bucko