Francophile Pie Franco Dinner, Feb. 17th

I have the '91 Noval Nacional, an '06 Forstreiter Tabor Gruner Veltliner, and '05 Claude Courtois Caillous du Paradis Racines in my bag. If I can make it to storage during lunch I have 2 other things I want to grab.
 
Keith, I love Racines but are you sure it's from ungrafted vines? The Courtois website (http://claudecourtois.fr/) only claims that Julien Courtois's "100%" is made from such, but doesn't claim that about any of the others. Lawd, we wouldn't want a wine made from grafted vines (horror of horrors) to crash the party; the others might even catch phyloxera from it.
 
originally posted by Keith Levenberg:
I have the '91 Noval Nacional, an '06 Forstreiter Tabor Gruner Veltliner, and '05 Claude Courtois Caillous du Paradis Racines in my bag. If I can make it to storage during lunch I have 2 other things I want to grab.
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We are stocked up on the '91 Nacional already, but thanks anyway.
 
originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:
Keith, I love Racines but are you sure it's from ungrafted vines? The Courtois website (http://claudecourtois.fr/) only claims that Julien Courtois's "100%" is made from such, but doesn't claim that about any of the others. Lawd, we wouldn't want a wine made from grafted vines (horror of horrors) to crash the party; the others might even catch phyloxera from it.
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'Tis (see here and search "racines": http://www.amazon.com/Inspiring-Thi...books&qid=1266422916&sr=8-2#reader_B0032Z6YY6). That's why it's called Racines (roots) with a drawing of the vine and root on the bottle.
 
Intriguing. Ungrafted vines also have racines, of course, and Kermit's wording is ambiguous - can't tell if he is saying that just the cab franc is ungrafted, or all of them - so I called and Etienne Courtois confirmed that only the cab franc is ungrafted, not the other cpages (the Gamay 100% is 100% franc de pied). Done with quibbling, I'll be delighted to drink it.
 
originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
originally posted by Keith Levenberg:
'Tis (see here and search "racines": http://www.amazon.com/Inspiring-Thi...books&qid=1266422916&sr=8-2#reader_B0032Z6YY6). That's why it's called Racines (roots) with a drawing of the vine and root on the bottle.
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Weird; he says the cabernet franc is ungrafted, whereas I had heard (and read elsewhere) that the gamay was ungrafted. In any case, it's a mix of four or five varieties, so it hangs on franc de pied by a toenail.
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Etienne actually said "une dizaine d'autres." They do have ungrafted Gamay that Julien uses in the 100%, and maybe some of it also finds its way into the Racines, but he didn't say.
 
Gaia Estate "Thalassitis" 2008 (Santorini, Greece)
Meinhard Forstreiter Tabor Reserve Grner Veltliner 2007 (Kremstal, Austria)
Contrade di Taurasi (Cantine Lonardo) "Grecomusc'" 2007 (Campania, Italia)
Cantine Farro "Le Cigliate" Falanghina 2007 (Campania, Italia)
La Sibilla Falanghina 2008 (Campania, Italia)
Carl Schmitt-Wagner "Longuicher Maximiner Herrenberg" Riesling Kabinett 2005 (Mosel-Saar-Ruwer, Germany)
Bernard Baudry "Franc de Pied" Chinon 2005 (Loire Valley, France)
Bernard Baudry "Franc de Pied" Chinon 2003 (Loire Valley, France)
Bernard Baudry "Franc de Pied" Chinon 2002 (Loire Valley, France)
Catherine & Pierre Breton Franc de Pied Bourgueil 2002 (Loire Valley, France)
Domaine Gauby Muntada Ctes du Roussillon Villages Rouge 2007 (Roussillon, France)
Clos Saron Home Vineyard Pinot Noir 2007 (Sierra Foothills, California)
Cappellano "Otin Fiorin, Pi Franco Michet" Barolo 1999 (Piemonte, Italia) from magnum
I Vigneri di Salvo Foti "Vinudilice" Rosato 2007 (Sicilia, Italia)
Tenuta delle Terre Nere "Prephylloxera, La Vigna di Don Peppino" Etna Rosso 2007 (Sicilia, Italia)
Frank Cornelissen "Magma, R 6va" (Etna Sicilia, Italia)
Cantina Santadi "Terre Brune" Carignano del Sulcis 2004 (Sardegna, Italia)
Cantina del Taburno "Bue Apis" Aglianico del Taburno 2004 (Campania, Italia)
Cantina del Taburno "Bue Apis" Aglianico del Taburno 2003 (Campania, Italia)
Atalayas de Golban Ribera del Duero 2004 (Castilla y Len, Spain)
Antonio Bernardino Paulo da Silva "Reserva Velho Tinto" Colares Chitas 1995 (Sintra, Portugal)
Luis Pato "Quinta do Ribeirinho" Pe Franco Bairrada 1996 (Beiras, Portugal)
Quinta do Noval "Nacional" Porto 1991 (Douro, Portugal)
 
I've just picked up a 2000 Marionnet Provignage (which unfortunately was on the decline last I had it), a Tarlant Vigne d'Antan, and a 1998 Alfieri San Germano. I'm happy to pull the Racines if the blending grapes offend.
 
originally posted by Levi Dalton:
Domaine Gauby Muntada Ctes du Roussillon Villages Rouge 2007 (Roussillon, France)
Clos Saron Home Vineyard Pinot Noir 2007 (Sierra Foothills, California)
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Had no idea about the Gauby and had never heard about the Clos Saron.

For those of us that can't be there, someone please post notes.

Cantina del Taburno "Bue Apis" Aglianico del Taburno 2004 (Campania, Italia)
Cantina del Taburno "Bue Apis" Aglianico del Taburno 2003 (Campania, Italia)
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I had no idea that these were ungrafted. I never really liked them anyway though.
 
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