Trenel

[Alice F.]

So, they tracked me down and promised me I'd love the wines. Blah Blah. Chauvet this and that.
Have not plowed through the line up but they seem typical cookie cutter. They claim typical carbonic (well they say whole berry, how it's done I don't know). All I know, is that it tastes like Db before he went Thermo. Banana etc. Does any one know the dirt on them?

 

[Claude Kolm]

Kermit imported the wines about 30 years ago before he went on to bigger and better things in Beaujolais. I then lost track of Trénel until about 5-7 years ago when they appeared in a store here and I tried some and found them undrinkable. I know that I now have a much broader view of what Beaujolais can and should be, etc., etc., but I really don't think I would have liked the wines from 5-7 years ago any better 30 years ago. Something has really changed for the worse -- a lot worse.

 

[Levi Dalton]

What, you folks don't like Creme liqueurs?

 

[Alice F.]

Funny: They were so insistent that I would LOVE the wines. So tonight I uncorked my third. Third down the drain and then I found out USC was having a Trenel fest, calling them the Best of Beaujo (drum).

I opened up a sample of Jadot Chambolle 2009. In short, a less than satisfying wine night. Hitting the scotch.

 

[Steven Spielmann]

Marcs du Jura over here...

 

[BJ]

Wow, what a backfire.

 

[Sharon Bowman]

Trenet, "Boum"

ETA: Still no embedding YouTube videos?

 

[Joel Stewart]

originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
Trenet, "Boum"

Yum! Reminded me of Lapierre's 09 Raisins Gaulois.

('course, for all my knowledge of french, he could be singing about Mollydooker...)

 

[MLipton]

originally posted by Sharon Bowman:

ETA: Still no embedding YouTube videos?

Nope, but you can always link to them, winegrrrl.

Mark Lipton

 

[Jonathan Loesberg]

No link to Trenet's cover of Bobby Darin's Somewhere Beyond the Sea?

 

[Arnt Egil Nordlien]

originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:
No link to Trenet's cover of Bobby Darin's Somewhere Beyond the Sea?

Except it's the other way around. Trenet wrote it. Lots of versions on YouTube. Originally named "La mer".

 

[Jonathan Loesberg]

originally posted by Arnt Egil Nordlien:

originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:
No link to Trenet's cover of Bobby Darin's Somewhere Beyond the Sea?

Except it's the other way around. Trenet wrote it. Lots of versions on YouTube. Originally named "La mer".

Really? Oh, my gosh, how did I miss that!!!

 

[Sharon Bowman]

originally posted by MLipton:

originally posted by Sharon Bowman:

ETA: Still no embedding YouTube videos?

Nope, but you can always link to them, winegrrrl.

Mark Lipton

Somebody didn't click on my link!...

 

[MLipton]

originally posted by Sharon Bowman:

originally posted by MLipton:

originally posted by Sharon Bowman:

ETA: Still no embedding YouTube videos?

Nope, but you can always link to them, winegrrrl.

Mark Lipton

Somebody didn't click on my link!...

'course I did, silly. I was just pointing out the obvious... like always.

Mark Lipton

 

[Joe Dressner]

I don't think there is any dirt.

Their wines simple are not that good and there are much better options to choose from.

I'm curious about you saying they "tracked you down."

They didn't have to hire a private eye. You do have a web site and an active web presence.

 

[VS]

originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:
Really? Oh, my gosh, how did I miss that!!!

I guess some jokes don't make it all the way to Norway...

(Wonderful idea, BTW - Trénet doing a Darin cover... 'Spliche splache, j'étais dans mon bain...')

 

[MLipton]

originally posted by VS:

originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:
Really? Oh, my gosh, how did I miss that!!!

I guess some jokes don't make it all the way to Norway...

(Wonderful idea, BTW - Trénet doing a Darin cover... 'Spliche splache, j'étais dans mon bain...')

Or how about a Brian Eno cover? ('Spliche splache, j'étais ratissage dans l'argent comptant...')

With apologies to the Francophones here,
Mark Lipton

 

[VS]

Eno covers by Google Translator - a whole new line opens up right there! But I'd choose Bertrand Betsch to do the crooning instead. (Geeky note.)

 

[Jonathan Loesberg]

originally posted by MLipton:

originally posted by VS:

originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:
Really? Oh, my gosh, how did I miss that!!!

I guess some jokes don't make it all the way to Norway...

(Wonderful idea, BTW - Trénet doing a Darin cover... 'Spliche splache, j'étais dans mon bain...')

Or how about a Brian Eno cover? ('Spliche splache, j'étais ratissage dans l'argent comptant...')

With apologies to the Francophones here,
Mark Lipton

I was raking in the cash? I guess.

 

[Jeff Grossman]

Charles and his backup singers, the Visines sing: "Spliche splache, oeil vaste thé Chine abattes..."

(with apologies to everyone, really)