Dr. Seuss of wine: Brettanomyces

Posted on May 9, 2013

Dr. Seuss was a major part of how our society learned to read and interact with the world around us.  It was the way I learned to eat a sound breakfast, green eggs and ham.   I searched for a long time deep in abandoned libraries and found these lost works of Dr. Seuss.  Interestingly enough, the collection focused on wine!  Imagine that, Dr. Seuss was a Oenophile. In his first work, he helps us understand Brettanomyces.  Can you say, BRETT-tan-NO-Mices?  Do you know what Brettanomyces is?  Thanks to Dr. Seuss we will now have a better understanding of Brettanomyces.

Brettanomyces

White Wine

Pink Wine

Red Wine

Some Wine

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French Wine

Greek Wine

Your Wine

My Wine

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This one has a bad crisis.

This smells like poop of mices

Is it Brettanomyces?

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Some smell cheesy. Some smell like glue.

Some say gross. Some say Mmmm.

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Some are dank.

Some are blank.

Some are downright super rank.

What makes them dank and blank and rank?

I think it is, a dirty tank.

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Some are old.

Some are poopy.

This red one is

Quite smoky

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From the barrel?

From the maker?

This nasty scent,

Is no faker.

 

Is it dirty?

Is it clean?

Maybe its

Brettanomyces.

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Oh yeast! Oh Wine!

Oh Yeast! Oh Wine!

Why did you let it effect my wine?

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Some like Musar

Some like faults.

Some like Hochar

Some scream halt!

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Why do Somms like it? I cannot say.

But consumers will never, never pay.

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I smell band-aid.

I smell dog poo.

Sometimes bacon.

And horses too.

Some have spice

Some have glue

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Vintners call it

The yeast Dekkera?

Winemaker please,

Why in this era?

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