Basil the Great (died 379) repudiated the views of some dualistic heretics who abhorred marriage, rejected wine, and called God's creation "polluted" and who substituted water for wine in the Eucharist.
We also rejected wines that lacked the tense sense of balance that energizes good sparkling wines.
Cyprian (died 258) rejected undiluted wine in the Eucharist.
In a clean break from his university training in chemistry, Mr. Ooka has become a natural wine purist, rejecting the use of any sulfur dioxide, a widely used preservative.
While his criticism of high yields might have angered mainstream winemakers, he also alienated younger winemakers in France's natural wine movement by rejecting their imperatives to use only ambient yeasts in fermentation and to avoid using sulfur dioxide as a preservative.
Another Bordeaux concept — call it a value concept if you prefer — is the making of a "second wine," using portions of the harvest that have been rejected for the top wine.
Or, worse, you'll just hit on a lecturer when drunk on free departmental wine, be rejected, and have to spend the next three years studiously avoiding them, and never ever taking any of their modules.
It is the wine made from the grapes that survive this cut that will be so severely judged at the assemblage: perhaps half will be rejected for the first wine.
The practice of the Protestant churches were slower to revert, and some bodies, though now rejecting their formerly prohibitionist platform, still retain vestiges of it such as using grape juice alone or beside wine in the Lord's supper.
The area has now become a hotbed of so-called "natural" wine, a riskier method of winemaking that favors later harvests, slow fermentations and selection of the best grapes while rejecting the addition of virtually all outside additions during winemaking.
