DRC Quiz

[Ned Hoey]

Thanks I knew there had to be but they weren't coming to mind for me either. I've never seen the Meo Echezeaux. From what I could tell KLWM hasn't been getting that one.

 

[Filippo Mattia Ginanni]

originally posted by Keith Levenberg:
Tardy's Echezeaux is Echezeaux Le Treux.
Jayer-Gilles' is Echezeaux-du-Dessus.
Meo Camuzet's is Echezeaux Les Rouges du Bas.
There are definitely others but I can't think of them offhand.

I believe this is relevant especially in Echezaux as the original bit was quite smaller than the actual GC. Mugneret Gibourgs bottles a blend of two Lieu Dits, one at the top and one at the bottom of Echezaux and they taste not quite similar (if you visit and ask Marie-Andree she will gladly show this).

My 0.002c

 

[Jeff Grossman]

originally posted by Claude Kolm:

originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
Chandon de Briaille has Corton Blanc GC which is a blend of three parcels (Bressandes, Marechaudes, and one other).

Are you sure of this, Jeff? I seem to recall that it was all from Bresssandes, last I asked, but it certainly is possible that they planted more since then.

Claude told me that of the 2007 wine when I visited in January 2009. She also remarked that the amount of white was very small in each. She also said her mother had planted three rows of white vines in Clos du Roi.

 

[Jeff Grossman]

A brief digression... Isn't there some Corton 1er Cru? (I thought there were some little pieces of property just around the hill proper.)

 

[Ian Fitzsimmons]

Same here, in the Chardonnay areas.

 

[Cory Cartwright]

originally posted by Oliver McCrum:
Alice,

are you assuming that it was the effects of inoculation that displeased de Villaine?

I need to check my notes, but one winemaker we talked to in France mentioned that inoculating wasn't the problem with his wines, it was just that if he had to resort to inoculation there was enough problems with the fermentation that the wine was never going to be good. I had never thought of it this way.

 

[Claude Kolm]

originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
A brief digression... Isn't there some Corton 1er Cru? (I thought there were some little pieces of property just around the hill proper.)

There are lieux-dits that are part grand cru Corton, part premier cru, but as premier cru, they go by the name of the lieu-dit, e.g., Aloxe-Corton Les Paulands. (Les Paulands is also a village lieu-dit, to add to the confusion.)

 

[Claude Kolm]

originally posted by Jeff Grossman:

originally posted by Claude Kolm:

originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
Chandon de Briaille has Corton Blanc GC which is a blend of three parcels (Bressandes, Marechaudes, and one other).

Are you sure of this, Jeff? I seem to recall that it was all from Bresssandes, last I asked, but it certainly is possible that they planted more since then.

Claude told me that of the 2007 wine when I visited in January 2009. She also remarked that the amount of white was very small in each. She also said her mother had planted three rows of white vines in Clos du Roi.

Correction, yes, it was the Clos-du-Roi not Bressandes originally, so I guess they have planted more.

 

[Jeff Grossman]

originally posted by Claude Kolm:
There are lieux-dits that are part grand cru Corton, part premier cru, but as premier cru, they go by the name of the lieu-dit, e.g., Aloxe-Corton Les Paulands. (Les Paulands is also a village lieu-dit, to add to the confusion.)

This is so... French.

 

[Oliver McCrum]

originally posted by Cory Cartwright:

originally posted by Oliver McCrum:
Alice,

are you assuming that it was the effects of inoculation that displeased de Villaine?

I need to check my notes, but one winemaker we talked to in France mentioned that inoculating wasn't the problem with his wines, it was just that if he had to resort to inoculation there was enough problems with the fermentation that the wine was never going to be good. I had never thought of it this way.

Exactly.