Tidbits from Wolf

September 4, 2009

I couldn’t let this slip by.

The following comments come from the venerable Wolf Blass, 75 years young this week. An outspoken wine industry icon, Wolf is credited with much over his years, yet you wouldn’t know judging by the quality of much of the wines that presently bear his name.

I mean, have you tried the latest Wolf Blass wines? Embarrassing caricatures, weedy rubbish, and commercial shiite, only salvaged by the high quality Riesling & the odd Gold Label Chardonnay & Black Label red.

Yet old Wolf has still got it in him, even if I don’t agree with everything in this excerpt (like making Australia famous for spritzy sweet wines. Erm, no thanks).

Interesting nonetheless.

Wolf speaks out

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2 responses to “Tidbits from Wolf”

Tim Cohen

September 4, 2009 at 10:45 am

no promotion or no propaganda and you are nothing. fair dinkum wolf, that is a massive generalist statement – what about the Giaconda's, Bindi's and Clonakilla's; no promotion, no propaganda and still they sell their wine out the moment it is released (parden generalisation).
these three producers do not need wine shows or advertising material to sell wine – good fruit and good winemaking does that.
lets leave the commercial shiite for those who crave the attention hey

tim

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Jeremy Pringle

September 5, 2009 at 2:01 am

I've made plenty of mistakes, but this rubbish from WB is as bad as anything I've ever done. And he SHOULD know better. Sad.

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