Elevage per Ms Robinson...

[Peter Creasey]

Official definition from Jancis Robinson’s The Oxford Companion to Wine...

Élevage is a French word that describes an important aspect of winemaking but has no direct equivalent in English. Élevage means literally ‘rearing’, ‘breeding’, or ‘raising’ and is commonly applied to livestock, or humans as in bien élevé for ‘well brought up’. When applied to wines, it means the series of cellar operations that take place between fermentation and bottling, suggesting that the winemaker’s role is rather like that of a loving parent who guides, disciplines, and civilizes the raw young wine that emerges from the fermentation vessel. The word élevage implies that all this effort is worth it, and is therefore normally applied only above a certain level of wine quality.

. . . . . . Pete

 

[Tom Glasgow]

Thanks, I've been waiting for this.

 

[Guilhaume gerard]

originally posted by Peter Creasey:
Elevage per Ms Robinson...
Official definition from Jancis Robinson’s The Oxford Companion to Wine...

Élevage is a French word that describes an important aspect of winemaking but has no direct equivalent in English. Élevage means literally ‘rearing’, ‘breeding’, or ‘raising’ and is commonly applied to livestock, or humans as in bien élevé for ‘well brought up’. When applied to wines, it means the series of cellar operations that take place between fermentation and bottling, suggesting that the winemaker’s role is rather like that of a loving parent who guides, disciplines, and civilizes the raw young wine that emerges from the fermentation vessel. The word élevage implies that all this effort is worth it, and is therefore normally applied only above a certain level of wine quality.

. . . . . . Pete

Oh dear god

 

[Larry Stein]

originally posted by Guilhaume gerard:

originally posted by Peter Creasey:
Elevage per Ms Robinson...
Official definition from Jancis Robinson’s The Oxford Companion to Wine...

Élevage is a French word that describes an important aspect of winemaking but has no direct equivalent in English. Élevage means literally ‘rearing’, ‘breeding’, or ‘raising’ and is commonly applied to livestock, or humans as in bien élevé for ‘well brought up’. When applied to wines, it means the series of cellar operations that take place between fermentation and bottling, suggesting that the winemaker’s role is rather like that of a loving parent who guides, disciplines, and civilizes the raw young wine that emerges from the fermentation vessel. The word élevage implies that all this effort is worth it, and is therefore normally applied only above a certain level of wine quality.

. . . . . . Pete

Oh dear god

Good thing you have a healthy supply of spit-up towels in your home.

 

[David Erickson]

Bunch of Montessori babies. Oh, wait, you think Cornelissen is a genius. Never mind.