My little varietal

[Sharon Bowman]

!@#$*&(&^&%)(&^%$@$

Varietal, varietal, wherefore art thou varietal?

Who cares, man. What I am here to post about in my punkish, curled-lip way is the variety of grape known to one and all (of the Anglophone persuasion*) as Grenache Gris.

I have had two of late, and I have loved those two. I have had one of the two (this gets complicated, but stay with me) twice.

2008 Domaine de L'Anglore "Sels d'Argent" is worth knocking over small old ladies to get to. A brush of oxidation, round yet sharp, this is Loire oddities of the south.

2008 Clos de l'Origine "Les Quilles Libres" (god help the pun**), yowza, very much like a certain steely savagnin from Bindernagel I had a few weeks ago. It has such utter acidity, such wiry and unpredictable aromatics. This cannot be from the Ctes Catalanes, yet it is. And it's gorgeous.

*Yes, it is a choice. If you weren't degenerates, you'd all be speaking French. -Brad Kane

**Pronounced like l'quilibre, i.e. "balance."

 

[Thor]

I was just enjoying a sylvaner rouge the other day. But no puns from me. Sharon's doing just fine all by herself.

 

[Sharon Bowman]

The only pun present is not mine, it's the wine's name.

 

[Thor]

You may disclaim all you wish, but I saw you do that SO2 thing the other day.

 

[Jeff Grossman]

Sharon, ever read Mots dheures: gousses, rames; the dAntin manuscript?

 

[Oswaldo Costa]

I was going to make a pun, but decided against it.

 

[Claude Kolm]

originally posted by Thor:
I was just enjoying a sylvaner rouge the other day.

Is that the Sylvaner to which they added 10% Syrah from the Rhne (rumored to be from Chave's 1990 Hermitage cuve Cathelin) so that for a mere $6500 I could experience the same thing that Louis XIV did when he celebrated his conquest of Strasbourg? How is it? I heard they only made 17 bottles of it.

 

[Thor]

No, that's Eric Texier's project in Alsace. (Oops, the bag no longer has a cat in it...)

 

[John DeFiore]

originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:
I was going to make a pun, but decided against it.

So you pun-ted, eh?

 

[Oswaldo Costa]

originally posted by John DeFiore:

originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:
I was going to make a pun, but decided against it.

So you pun-ted, eh?

Only in a manner of not speaking...

 

[Sharon Bowman]

"Sels d'Argent" this evening still das Bomben.

Happy Parisians, we.

 

[Matteo Mollo]

originally posted by Thor:
I was just enjoying a sylvaner rouge the other day. But no puns from me. Sharon's doing just fine all by herself.

you and this sylvaner rouge...you are infatuated eh? Me, ill stick with my pineau/gamay blends from Ginennois...

 

[Thor]

From a sample set of one...