Kaiserstuhl, a most beautiful region producing beautiful wines!

Of the great many wine regions I have visited in the last 3-4 years, this one must be the 2nd or 3rd most beautiful (after the Douro & Salta)... I am sorry that my photos below absolutely do not render justice to the sheer beauty of the landscapes & its many terraces. A beautiful region worth a visit, just a stone throw from Alsace...

Yvon Métras Fleurie Le Printemps 2008 - A "Black Swan" Of A Wine...

Frankly, I have always had an ambivalent "relationship" with natural wines.  I am not sure why.  Perhaps it is many of the wines that put me off.  Perhaps it is the type of people who seem to insist on waxing lyrical about wines that are either too volatile or oxidised.  You know the type, a little smug who discard everything that is not "natural" as being rubbish, even though the very example they are using to make their point is actually rubbish...

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