concerning an evolved spoofulation
The point I am making though is that spoof practice has evolved. The basic idea is to make something in extraction, color, concentration and heavily perfumed with familiar/monotone aromatics. Clumsy and expensive practices are one way to get there, but bowing to market pressure, many producers are getting there in a more natural way. This doesn't make the wines any more attractive to people who don't like the old-fashioned spoof.

Conversely, working naturally doesn't automatically make your wine sing. There are so many factors, variables and finally it is what you have in the fields that matters the most.

Or something like that.
via jim
- bill 9-02-2008 4:03 pm

Spoofulation is so much a part of today’s wine vocabulary that a debate has begun on the etymology of the term. Joe Dressner, the importer, whose portfolio is spoofulated wine-free, recently reported on the birth of the term spoofulation on his blog, The Wine Importer, where he recounts the debate over how the word was coined by Harmon Skurnik of the extraordinary importer and distributor Michael Skurnik Wines in New York and Michael Wheeler, formerly of Michael Skurnik Wines and now of that extraordinary importer and distributor in New York, Polaner Selections. Please be prepared to keep your tongue firmly in your cheek as you read this post.

- bill 9-03-2008 1:42 pm [add a comment]


Smith uses his superior knowledge and experience to effectively dismantle the “natural” winemaking debating team’s positions (which I mostly agree with) as he did in a recent article published on Appellation America’s website called Spoofulated or Artisanal, which is well worth reading. Spoofulated, for those unfamiliar with the term that debuted on the Wine Therapy Forum and became part of wine lingo, refers to manipulated wines, which are often made in a style that appeals to Robert Parker and The Wine Spectator. It is a word used as an insult by those seeking a more terroir-driven winemaking experience as spoofulated wines all-to-often taste more-or-less the same.
more from wine camp
- bill 9-03-2008 1:56 pm [add a comment]


http://www.datamantic.com/joedressner/comment/1788/
- Skinny 9-09-2008 2:10 pm [add a comment]


iits all true!
- bill 9-09-2008 4:23 pm [add a comment]





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