For a transcript of Ted Lemon’s (Littorai) extremely thought-provoking presentation to the recent Mornington Peninsula pinot noir convention, look here:

http://blog.jjbuckley.com/2013/02/20/ted-lemon-on-noble-place-in-new-world-winegrowing/

I would love to sit down with him over a couple of glasses of wine and find out what he means when he says we should not use Burgundy as a measuring stick – I think I disagree on that, although it certainly depends.  How I might say something similar:  when pinot diverges too far from the Burgundian model, we have a problem, although New World pinots are not better or less good based solely on how much they do or don’t resemble Burgundy.

Think Spring!

Russ