greek chardonnay, anyone?

[robert ames]

i'm tucking in to a bottle (or trying to) of domaine gerovassiliou chardonnay 2005 from the wine region epanomi (in greece). boy there's lots and lots of caramel that seems like it would like, more than anything else, to be roasted hazelnut. pretty hard to drink. it's like someone picked up on the fact that it's a common complexity in meursault and made a bunch of extract and dumped it in the wine.

all in all it serves perfectly as an antidote to over-indulgence.

 

[MarkS]

Eh...no. Rather have one of their autochthonous varieties.

 

[kirk wallace]

originally posted by MarkS:
Eh...no. Rather have one of their autochthonous varieties.

Love it; a Greek-derived word for a Greek wine recommendation....

 

[Sharon Bowman]

On that note, a French friend of mine used to rail against the use of the term "salle polyvalente" in small towns in France. It should be multivalente, bien sûr.

 

[Oswaldo Costa]

In Portuguese, polivalente and multivalente are (used as) synonyms. What's the filigree difference in French (or in Greek)?

 

[Sharon Bowman]

"Valent" comes from Latin, "poly" is the Greek version of "multi." So it's a mutt. The purebred word would be "multivalent."

 

[MLipton]

In Chemistry, polyvalent gets the nod over multivalent. I'd feel more upset about that mixed etymology if I didn't speak a language in which automobile is considered a perfectly acceptable construction.

Mark Lipton

 

[Sharon Bowman]

Ha, good point. "Suimobile" is slightly less catchy.

 

[kirk wallace]

originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
Ha, good point. "Suimobile" is slightly less catchy.

maybe not if one is calling for hogs.

 

[Oswaldo Costa]

Well wadyaknow...

 

[Brian Greenwood]

Drink their Malagoussia, or their Assyrtico/Malagoussia blend. No need to worry about burgundy cognates with those.