This South African Winemaker is breaking every winemaking rule in the book

South African winemaker Pieter H Walser has a ‘punk’ approach to winemaking, ripping up every rulebook there is going.

But his approach does not interfere in the quality of his product. The excellent wines speak for themselves.

As rebel winemakers go, Pieter H Walser is about as rebellious as you can get. This is the South African behind BLANKbottle, the winery that picked up a good deal of press recently on account of one of its wines, Limbic, having the blend chosen by the sub-conscious part of Walser’s brain hooked up to electrodes.

“The day I pick them, I taste the grapes and I decide more or less what the wine’s going to be like, but it then goes through different phases during the winemaking process so by the time I need to bottle, I can become confused,” Walser tells The Buyer.

An EEG machine, hooked up to Walser’s brainwaves, measured his emotional response to 27 varietals and then the blend chosen for this wine on the basis of these responses.


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