Tempiers and fails

[Oswaldo Costa]

originally posted by SFJoe:
What are the latitudes of your most-offending SA vineyards, Oswaldo?

Good idea, I'll put together a little list of yea and nay latitudes and post it tomorrow.

In the meantime, can somebody be so kind as to draw up a list of mourvèdres that see the sea and one of those that don't? Then we can compare quality. Lowest average score wins.

 

[Levi Dalton]

I leave this thread for a day and all hell breaks loose.

 

[Jeff Grossman]

originally posted by Levi Dalton:
I leave this thread for a day and all hell breaks loose.

Is Hell at sea level? We know there are 7 rivers but there's no firm mythological statement concerning overall altitude.

 

[Levi Dalton]

originally posted by Jeff Grossman:

originally posted by Levi Dalton:
I leave this thread for a day and all hell breaks loose.

Is Hell at sea level? We know there are 7 rivers but there's no firm mythological statement concerning overall altitude.

This is fine work, Sir. Fine work.

 

[Jeff Grossman]

originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:
Good idea, I'll put together a little list of yea and nay latitudes and post it tomorrow.

Oswaldo, do you like any wines from Valle d'Aosta? 4,000 feet above sea level for Blanc de Morgex et de la Salle.

 

[Oswaldo Costa]

originally posted by Jeff Grossman:

originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:
Good idea, I'll put together a little list of yea and nay latitudes and post it tomorrow.

Oswaldo, do you like any wines from Valle d'Aosta? 4,000 feet above sea level for Blanc de Morgex et de la Salle.

Only tried two that Scott brought to a jeebus once and they were fine.

 

[Cliff]

Those bottles from Domaine des Crêts showed really well, I thought.

 

[Jonathan Loesberg]

originally posted by Jeff Grossman:

originally posted by Levi Dalton:
I leave this thread for a day and all hell breaks loose.

Is Hell at sea level? We know there are 7 rivers but there's no firm mythological statement concerning overall altitude.

All known mythology has hell at many many meters below sea level and every other kind of earth level. Don't pay any attention to that Milton guy. He was blind and a heretic.

 

[Levi Dalton]

originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:

originally posted by Jeff Grossman:

originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:
Good idea, I'll put together a little list of yea and nay latitudes and post it tomorrow.

Oswaldo, do you like any wines from Valle d'Aosta? 4,000 feet above sea level for Blanc de Morgex et de la Salle.

Only tried two...

This is problematic for the flavor of this discussion.

 

[Oswaldo Costa]

originally posted by SFJoe:
What are the latitudes of your most-offending SA vineyards, Oswaldo?

To overreply, here is a table cobbled together from data shown in the exhibition How Wine Became Modern at SFMoMA. I listed the vineyards in order of rising latitude (be great if we could have another twenty or so datapoints; we could run some regressions...).

Found Colchagua surprisingly low and Barbaresco surprisingly high. Waddya know. As I suspect you slyly intended, data helps.