NYTimes: Disaster In Chianti

Interesting article in today's NYTimes on the problems in Chianti of wild boars ripping up the vnyds:
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Of course, trying to solve this problem raises all sorts objections.

Ugly critters they are...but probably make a delicious salami.

Tom

Even in Northern Europe, wild boar can be very destructive. I have seen pictures of what groups of them do to carefully tended gardens which happen to lie in the path of their rampages. We have them here in the neighbouring woods and I am hoping that they will not choose to come this way; they would not be held up much by our standard fencing.

A local farmer shoots them during hunting season but doesn't eat them himself. Last year he gave us some and very nice too in a rich stew with Châteauneuf du Pape.

Carl von Schubert of Maximin Grünhaus sells a delicious salami of Riesling gorged wild boar.

[David M. Bueker]

Carl von Schubert of Maximin Grünhaus sells a delicious salami of Riesling gorged wild boar.

I wonder if there is a terroir difference in the salami when the boars eat from Abstberg versus Herrenberg or Bruderberg.