2021 Glou Glou winners

originally posted by Larry Stein:


'94 Chateauneuf-du-Pape “Selection Reflets”, Clos du Mont Olivet
'94 Chateauneuf-du-Pape, Bosquet des Papes
I picked up the two '94s (4 bottles each) for a song via auction. Perfect drinking stage. Old school CdPape, no new oak. I drank 6 of the 8 bottles in 2021.
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Two traditional producers from before Cambie and before climate change in an underrated vintage. I'm unsurprised that they are doing well now. I remember both of them with fondness.
 
It's French for "glug." It goes back beyond current wine wars, at least, since it is in a French drinking song that I learned when I was 16 in France and that is certainly much older than that. It's really means a simple, wine that's fun to drink and not anything more. I remember Joe Dressner using the term gluggable for a wine (and then immediately apologizing for it).
 
originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:
It's French for "glug." I goes back beyond current wine wars, at least, since it is in a French drinking song that I learned when I was 16 in France and that is certainly much older than that. It's really means a simple, wine that's fun to drink and not anything more. I remember Joe Dressner using the term gluggable for a wine (and then immediately apologizing for it).
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i can't find it right now, but i do recall coming upon the french word 'gouylant' (sp?) that was translated as gulpable--in an article about beaujolais.
 
I think the word you are looking for is gouleyant. It is usually translated as "lively," though, as modifying a wine, I guess gulpable would be better.
 
originally posted by MarkS:
I've never understood 'glou-glou'. Seems like a cheap way to get drunk.
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always a relief to hear a sensible voice on this.

at the fatschloß we bracket 'glou-glou' as one of teh more invidious vices to have weakened western civilization after the decline of proper cutlery. we too look back at those halcyon days when a man would regularly rise before dawn, eat a handful of gravel for breakfast, and then go for a brisk 10 mile run in his brogues and tweed running garments. how else could one fortify oneself for a studious afternoon assigning points to a roomful of claret?

quite. so let's just call the recidivist habit of this bored, which is to try to hide one's shameful winsecure tendencies in a web of obscurantist arcanae (french etymology -- don't even pretend!) what it is: the recidivist habit of every hater who tries to hide their winsecure tendencies in obscurantist bullshit.

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originally posted by Larry Stein:
originally posted by mlawton:
Also in another place, there's some discussion of a la tache which was a nice St. Joseph - also Massale, now vanished.
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Discussion where? I haven't seen any since the 2010 vintage. I still have 3 bottles each of Guillamy and Badel. Drank my 07s and 09s. All excellent.
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On the berzerking bored. And yes, all excellent. I miss these wines.
 
originally posted by MarkS:
I've never understood 'glou-glou'. Seems like a cheap way to get drunk.
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Not at the current asking price of LaFoillerre Cote du Puy Cuvée Reservé Chateau-bottled Nuit san Wugga Wugga.

As soon as somebody here pays attention, there's a upscale release for $25 more, and the ticket for the standard release goes up $15. And I buy some.

originally posted by fatboy:
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angst-free insider knowledge, all with no superfluous capitalization! sign me up.
 
Don’t know how I missed this thread.

Is Falkenstein Glou Glou whether in its best sense or worst? Is Tiberio?

I’ve got Tiberio Cerasuolo on tap as I’ve never tried it. So now I’ll move it up the queue.

I would describe Falkenstein as I have for a couple years, especially the Kabis and the 2020 Feinherbs, as Single Serving 750s (#singleserving750 if you will), and they do tend to disappear quickly down the gullet, but I wouldn’t call them Glou Glou.

I too struggle with the category. I admit to needing Therapy on this point but alas Therapy was replaced by Disorder long ago so I will endure as is, continuing to struggle.
 
originally posted by Jayson Cohen:


I too struggle with the category. I admit to needing Therapy on this point but alas Therapy was replaced by Disorder long ago so I will endure as is, continuing to struggle.
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From the specific to the general . . .
It’s our lot, I suppose.
 
while glou glou will likely evade inclusion in the oed, and to each of us it means what we think it means, to me there's a notion that glou glou wine is both gluggable, and not apt to distract you from whatever it is that you're thinking about as the air bubbles go up the neck of the bottle.
 
originally posted by robert ames:
while glou glou will likely evade inclusion in the oed, and to each of us it means what we think it means, to me there's a notion that glou glou wine is both gluggable, and not apt to distract you from whatever it is that you're thinking about as the air bubbles go up the neck of the bottle.
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Yup, from my earliest encounter with the term in an SM mailing or a post by Cory, I’ve interpreted it as meaning delicious enough to invite repeated pours but also uncomplicated enough to not demand your full attention, the gustatory equivalent of ambient music. To quote Eno and Cale from one of my favorite pop albums (Wrong Way Up) “I am the sea of permutation/I live beyond interpretation.I penetrate the walls of explanation”

Mark Lipton
 
originally posted by MLipton:
originally posted by robert ames:
while glou glou will likely evade inclusion in the oed, and to each of us it means what we think it means, to me there's a notion that glou glou wine is both gluggable, and not apt to distract you from whatever it is that you're thinking about as the air bubbles go up the neck of the bottle.
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Yup, from my earliest encounter with the term in an SM mailing or a post by Cory, I’ve interpreted it as meaning delicious enough to invite repeated pours but also uncomplicated enough to not demand your full attention, the gustatory equivalent of ambient music. To quote Eno and Cale from one of my favorite pop albums (Wrong Way Up) “I am the sea of permutation/I live beyond interpretation.I penetrate the walls of explanation”

Mark Lipton
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This is certainly demanding my attention right now.

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