On Oct 14, 11:23*am, Mike Tommasi > wrote:
> On 14/10/2011 16:35, Bi!! wrote:
>
> > I was invited to a small private tasting of the wines of Elio Altare
> > yesterday as this was my first tasting of these wines I had a little
> > notion of what they were about but was really stunned by the wines. *I
> > made some cursory notes. *Clearly Elio Altare's time in Burgundy is
> > reflected in his wines and while modern in style these wines really
> > showed the underlying structure of what Nebbiolo can be while
> > balancing the fruit, tannins and acid into a beautifully well rounded
> > wine that can stand some age.
>
> Elio Altare makes remarkable wines.
>
> Modernist usually refers to a fairly heavy handed use of oak that was
> promoted at one point by Parker and, strangely, by other influential
> organizations like Slow Food.
>
> Elio uses oak with great intelligence, so he is not a modernist in the
> same sense...


Yes Mike you are correct I was just trying to convey the difference
between the "old school" style of somewhat under ripe grapes that
require 20 years of aging versus the riper style that the modernist
employ which in many cases involves the heavy handed use of oak.