Pinguet out at Huet

[Cory Cartwright]

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"Personnage incontournable du vignoble de Loire, Noël Pinguet a décidé de ne plus travailler sur le domaine Huet. Après plus de trente ans passés à produire le meilleur vouvray, le vigneron part sur un désaccord avec la famille propriétaire du domaine."

Very sad.

 

[Sharon Bowman]

Wow, one of the two reasons is that he refused to make "du vin blanc sec" anymore!

 

[Cory Cartwright]

"Plus du blanc sec."

 

[Sharon Bowman]

OK, OK, hasty read.

Interesting conflict of choice, then. Does Hwang think that residual sugar is démodé?

 

[SFJoe]

What is the bit about distribution?

 

[SFJoe]

But careless of Tony.

I am guessing, and didn't taste with them at the fair, but it's getting hard to make Vouvray sec in these post-1990 days, particularly if you have good sites and moderate yields. Too much potential, and it will either be sugar or alcohol.

 

[Cory Cartwright]

Bigger customers were getting preference over the historic ones. (In guilhaume's terms "priority to the big $")

 

[Sharon Bowman]

originally posted by SFJoe:
What is the bit about distribution?

"...sa politique de distribution sur mesure est contrariée par la volonté de la famille propriétaire de faire la part belle aux plus grosses commandes."

His policy of bespoke distribution runs afoul of the owner family's desire to give larger orders the lion's share.

 

[VS]

Wow. La Revue du Vin de France reports that, after more than 30 years, Noël Pinguet leaves Huet "over a disagreement with the owners". My view: you DON'T let a Noël Pinguet leave.
VS at 2/24/12 1:53 pm

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[SFJoe]

You would think there would have been some middle ground on both those questions, and VS is right.

 

[Cole Kendall]

Very unfortunate; and they couldn't survive with him another 3 years?

 

[Brad Kane]

A sad, sad day.

 

[VLM]

Wow. Bummer. Pretty soon all the guys I admired will be gone and I'll be that grumpy old man.

 

[Cory Cartwright]

Aren't you that guy already?

 

[mlawton]

It's OK, the wines were no good anymore anyway, they were made by a hired man.

 

[SFJoe]

Good point.

 

[Jay Miller]

Wow. Napolean invades Russia, BOA buys Countrywide...

 

[Unknown]

Interesting regarding RS, never crossed my mind.

I studied the three 2010 Sec over three days each, and while they were all outstanding, Le Mont did not want to be Sec, and I don't mean that from an RS standpoint specifically. It just seems all the tremendous work done in that vineyard, in conjunction with the warmer climate, possibly along with Pinguet's desired yield levels, is no longer making the wine's profile suitable for any form of Sec in a reasonably ripe vintage.

And no, I am not trying to draw parallels with Spatlesen pretending to be Kabinetts, this is something else.

 

[Unknown]

"modern viticulture."

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[Unknown]

they have it in germany too.

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