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A Brett of fresh air
I blame the Beaucastel. Or it could have been the Bordeaux. These were the wines I cut my vinous teeth on: I loved – still love – a good bottle of claret and the wines of the Rhône, north and south. Now I’m told that many of the wines I was blithely enjoying were – and in some cases, still are – ‘riddled’ with Brett. This is why, I think, I appear to have a bit of a blind spot where Brettanomyces is concerned: those smells and tastes that set off the Brett alarm bells in other tasters are smells and tastes that I associate with wines I actually quite like. ...
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