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What Will the Next Winemaking Buzzword Be?

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What Will the Next Winemaking Buzzword Be?

by Bill Spohn » Tue Jun 04, 2019 5:29 pm

We've had wild yeast ferments, wine in cans, wine with plastic corks and screw caps, orange wine, Chablis with such high sulfur levels the winemaker must have been El Diablo himself, 'natural wine' , blue bottles, actual blue wine, 'critter' labels, wine fermented in amphorae, biodynamics....

And now, (shudder all you closet sulfur fans - you know who you are, the ones holding a glass of white wine that smells like a struck match) the 'sans soufre' (doesn't anything sound somehow more profound in French?) or no sulfur contingent that abjure the use of sulfites entirely. That can result in shorter lived wines as well as a possibly higher spoilage rate from secondary fermentation but is also felt to provide a freshness that sulfured wines don't.

Here is just one article on this practice: https://www.lamuseblue.com/2019/01/henr ... -provence/

Has anyone had enough sans soufre wines to offer an opinion about them?

This all came up when I was offered a sand soufre Champagne from Mary Courtin and started thinking about it.
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Re: What Will the Next Winemaking Buzzword Be?

by David M. Bueker » Tue Jun 04, 2019 6:52 pm

Well I have had more than my fair share of no added sulfur wines, and I do not get the hype.

But Sans Soufre is so 2017.
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Re: What Will the Next Winemaking Buzzword Be?

by Rahsaan » Wed Jun 05, 2019 8:15 am

David M. Bueker wrote:Well I have had more than my fair share of no added sulfur wines, and I do not get the hype.

But Sans Soufre is so 2017.


Was 2017 a particularly high-water mark for the practice?

I'm not sure how much *hype* there is. I suppose it depends who you talk to. I think Bill's comment above pretty much sums it up. Sans soufre wines have another dimension of freshness that can be enjoyable, but there are also limitations/downsides and the increased likelihood of spoilage. Even in France/close to the source!

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