Interesting Article on Women Rebel Winemakers

A somewhat interesting article in Punch by one Jennifer Fiedler:
RebelWomenWinemakers

lamenting the lack of opportunity for women winemakers in the rebel/fringe winemaking scene.
I'm not sure I agree w/ the idea that there is the lack of opportunity for such female winemakers as much as it's just that female winemakers may choose not to don the mantle of rebel/fringe winemakers. Do you think the wine world is ready for a CharlesSmith female winemaker??? I think probably not.

Tom

Is Charles Smith considered a rebel? He makes oaky, fruity, goopy wines and labels them with cute names and marketing campaigns.

That's pretty mainstream to me.

Is Charles Smith considered a rebel? He makes oaky, fruity, goopy wines and labels them with cute names and marketing campaigns.
That's pretty mainstream to me.

Uhhhhhhh...Brian...you've not obviously see/heard CharlesSmith in person...or even seen his hair-do.
About every few sentences he drops the f-bomb.
He gave a presentation at HdR some yrs ago and his language offended a lot of the folks there.
During the presentation, his lady running the slide show had some technology problems and the right slide
were not popping. He made the comment that she probably couldn't even give a good blow-job if she tried.
I went up to her afterwards to apologize for that uncalled-for remark & she just shrugged her shoulders as
if she were used to it.
Acting like an insane/wild-eyed rebel against the establishment is part of CharlesSmith's schtick.
Tom

Acting like an insane/wild-eyed rebel against the establishment is part of CharlesSmith's schtick.

A good Kansas colloquialism for that would be "being a major dick."

Acting like an insane/wild-eyed rebel against the establishment is part of CharlesSmith's schtick.

A good Kansas colloquialism for that would be "being a major dick."

Too funny, Hoke...but appropriate.
Tom

[Jenise]

This sentence got a big snicker out of me: "California’s Fred Franzia was knighted as [a rebel] for finding financial success with Two Buck Chuck".

He and Charles Smith don't even belong in the same thought-process. Which doesn't imply that I think more highly of one than the other, just that they are two different forms of undesirables.