Comments on: What’s Old is New http://nypress.com/whats-old-is-new-2/ New York's essential guide to culture, arts, politics, news and more Mon, 04 Mar 2013 11:49:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: lauren johnson-bell http://nypress.com/whats-old-is-new-2/#comment-29542 lauren johnson-bell Wed, 16 Jan 2013 16:01:00 +0000 http://nypress.com/?p=39617#comment-29542 Your argument on the topic is one of the most concise and factually correct I have read. Thank you. But what everyone seems to not be aware of, is the simple fact that vitis vinifera is indigenous to the Old World and NOT to the New World. Fruit will always do best when grown in its natural habitat … it’s indigenous environment … its terroir ! It may grow and adapt well in its adopted soils, but it will a mere variation on the original theme. A fig ripened under the Central Asian sun will taste better and be of a better physiological constitution that one grown in Philadelphia. And it is not because one can grow an apple in Florida that one should: whichever variety is deemed best suited it this climate, it still will be less interesting than one grown in its proper climate. Fruit growers have no problem eschewing greenhouse fruit, fast-growing, fast-maturing varieties, high-yield varieties, etc and saying so loud and clear. So why do we let wine producers get away with it?

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