http://cimacollina.com/WordPress/?p=63 Happenings, Challenges & Ideas blog from a new winery in the Monterey region Wed, 08 Sep 2010 10:29:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 http://cimacollina.com/WordPress/?p=63#comment-257 Wed, 14 Jun 2006 13:44:15 +0000 http://cimacollina.com/WordPress/?p=63#comment-257 [...] The headline is a quote from W. Somerset Maugham and the following paragraph from winemaker Annette Hoff: . . . a philosophical struggle I have been dealing with the last few years, and that is the idea that can a wine be made traditionally in modern times? How could it truly be “traditional” when made with modern equipment, commercial yeast, in stainless steel or plastic bins, with modern manipulation, technological know-how, bottling lines, etc. etc.? A “traditional” wine, in my mind at least, would seem to have been made by folks who are more in touch with nature, the soil and the seasons, than most folks are today. But, in spite of all of this, I truly believe I’m making a traditional product, but my problem was that I haven’t had a whole lot of evidence to back this idea up, even to myself. [...] [...] The headline is a quote from W. Somerset Maugham and the following paragraph from winemaker Annette Hoff: . . . a philosophical struggle I have been dealing with the last few years, and that is the idea that can a wine be made traditionally in modern times? How could it truly be “traditional” when made with modern equipment, commercial yeast, in stainless steel or plastic bins, with modern manipulation, technological know-how, bottling lines, etc. etc.? A “traditional” wine, in my mind at least, would seem to have been made by folks who are more in touch with nature, the soil and the seasons, than most folks are today. But, in spite of all of this, I truly believe I’m making a traditional product, but my problem was that I haven’t had a whole lot of evidence to back this idea up, even to myself. [...]

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