Daily Wine News: Funky No Longer Fun


“These days, it seems, wine professionals are disavowing “funky” — especially natural wine’s fiercest advocates,” writes Esther Mobley in the San Francisco Chronicle. “The obvious case against “funky” is that it’s too broad. Does it mean that a wine has a specific microbial flaw, like the spoilage yeast brettanomyces or the mysterious defect known as […]
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