To the one responsible for...guilty of Screaming Eagle!
Is this terrible news? He does own Wind Gap, which I have read good things about. Will the beautiful piercing acidity of Mayacamas be replaced by spoofulated cough syrup wines? I hope not!
WE: Will you change the Mayacamas style?
CB: There’s a big difference between style and execution. Bob made those wines the way he wanted to. Our approach is, I like that balance between the finesse and rustic mountain tannins, but our execution needs to improve a lot. We need to make the wines in a much more detailed fashion. That doesn’t mean some ripe, voluptuous cult wine. We’ll stay true to Mount Veeder and the Mayacamas style, but the wines will be more complex, a little softer when young, but will be made to age.
"Softer when young."
"Complex"
Bleh!
I can imagine. Look at the complexity! This wine tastes of big vanilla and graham crackers and over-ripe plums and saturated black cherry. And look, we can drink a 2010 now, tonight with dinner!
If someone like Cathy Corrison or even the Clos Du Val people had made this investment....who knows. It might have worked! (Not saying either of these good folks are buying new wineries, just that their styles are coherent with the M style!)
Oh well, I can still buy Godspeed and Sky and the like! Or Lagier Meredith!
