As if natural wine needed a boost right now along comes this interview on eater.com with Noma's wine director Pontus Elofsson on why Noma has turned its back on Bordeaux and is serving natural wines, mainly from Austria, Germany, Champagne, Burgundy and the Loire.
He's quoted as saying "Around 2006 I started to realize the wines with the least amount of intervention, chemicals, and techniques involved had an energy and focus that many of the conventional wines did not. I also started to realize that the wilder the wine, the better it paired with René's food."
Bordeaux, he says does not and is, in Elofsson's view, "probably the biggest chemical factory in Europe."
Whoa - stirring stuff! Read the rest of the interview here.
And download the wine list here.
I'm all for a minimalist approach to wine but to poo-poo a good Pauillac or Margaux as bad is asinine at best. There's a reason those wines command top dollar and it's not just the name.
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