Kermit Lynch: Romorantin widely-planted and forgettable?

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Steve Timko
While researching information on a Domaine du Salvard rose (delicious, by the way), I ran across this information on the Kermit Lynch web site:
" Unlike others in the appellation who still vinify the widely-planted and forgettable Romorantin varietal, the Delaille brothers have focused their attention on growing fresh, lively Sauvignon Blanc, deeply rooted in the sand, clay, and limestone plains of northeastern Touraine."

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I was under the impression Romorantin was fairly rare. Is it that a drinkable Romorantin was fairly rare?
Is he calling all Romarantin forgettable or just those around Cheverny?
 
This is a bit dated (copyright 2000), so I'm sure that someone who wants to invest more time searching the internet can do better, but Pierre Galet's "Dictionnaire Encyclopédique des Cépages" says of Romorantin, among other things:

in 1958, there were 680 ha planted (worldwide) to Romorantin, in 1999 that had shrunk to 90 ha, 89ha of which were in the Loir-et-Cher department of France.
 
originally posted by Guilhaume gerard:
Merci Kermit! More sauvignon is exactly what Touraine needs
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Well, some people would say Cour-Chéverny and Chéverny aren't really Touraine since it's a different department and Blois is the main town on the Loire in that department. Bloisais (for jaded palates)? ;) How about more Pineau d'Aunis?
 
OK, so which cépage is Sarko, which is Hollande, which is Le Pen, which Mélenchon, which Bayrou, and which other?

Do you plan to celebrate/drown your sorrows tomorrow with a bottle/glass of wine made from Romorantin?
 
" Unlike others in the appellation who still vinify the widely-planted and forgettable Romorantin varietal...

Whoops, I immediately stopped listening there. Was anything important said? Or, as I suspect, was "irregardless" used at some point?
 
originally posted by Claude Kolm:
originally posted by Guilhaume gerard:
Merci Kermit! More sauvignon is exactly what Touraine needs
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Well, some people would say Cour-Chéverny and Chéverny aren't really Touraine since it's a different department and Blois is the main town on the Loire in that department. Bloisais (for jaded palates)? ;) How about more Pineau d'Aunis?
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Chéverny?

Some people would say Cheverny.

Yes, it is closer to Blois than it is to Tours. Still is the north east corner of Touraine, right next to the Touraine-Mesland appelation. Also, all grapes that are not part of the 24 villages that are in the appellation are used in Touraine wines if i'm not mistaken.
 
originally posted by Guilhaume gerard:
originally posted by Claude Kolm:
originally posted by Guilhaume gerard:
Merci Kermit! More sauvignon is exactly what Touraine needs
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Well, some people would say Cour-Chéverny and Chéverny aren't really Touraine since it's a different department and Blois is the main town on the Loire in that department. Bloisais (for jaded palates)? ;) How about more Pineau d'Aunis?
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Chéverny?

Some people would say Cheverny.

Yes, it is closer to Blois than it is to Tours. Still is the north east corner of Touraine, right next to the Touraine-Mesland appelation. Also, all grapes that are not part of the 24 villages that are in the appellation are used in Touraine wines if i'm not mistaken.
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Sorry that the joke didn't take.
 
originally posted by Guilhaume gerard:
Sorry, election day. I'm a little tense here.
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What's tense? Everyone expects the Gouda and the Rolex to come through and then the Gouda to take the runoff, no?
 
originally posted by Claude Kolm:
originally posted by Guilhaume gerard:
Sorry, election day. I'm a little tense here.
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What's tense? Everyone expects the Gouda and the Rolex to come through and then the Gouda to take the runoff, no?
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the third guy score is what i was interested in, and it's quite a disappointment. Gouda is not president quite yet seems like.
 
Especially if you assume that Le Pen's support all goes to Sarkozy. Then Bayrou becomes an even bigger wildcard, as does the question of whether his voters will actually listen to him. Plus more general issues of turnout/abstention.
 
originally posted by Rahsaan:
Especially if you assume that Le Pen's support all goes to Sarkozy. Then Bayrou becomes an even bigger wildcard, as does the question of whether his voters will actually listen to him. Plus more general issues of turnout/abstention.
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The last time I saw polls, it was hardly a given that all of Le Pen's votes would go to Sarkozy. Some stayed home and some said they would vote for Holland. I know that seems strange, but it was the case in 68 that after RFK was assassinated, some proportion of his support went to George Wallace. Right wing populists are a strange lot.
 
To the extent Le Pen is a protest vote, I don't see that the next round's vote automatically goes to Rolex. Furthermore, how does Rolex simultaneously appeal to Bayrou and Le Pen backers? His position is not dissimilar to that of Romney over here, except that Romney is the challenger and in France, it's Gouda.

Add on update: Art Goldhammer shares Guilhaume's unease.
 
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