Michael Lewis
Michael Lewis
Turns out it is Guigal, by the way. But I tell you that in confidence, so please keep it on the DL.
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Trollat
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originally posted by Michael Lewis:
But Pete Creasey has really enlightened me, wine-wise. It is almost as though he revealed my personal "gentaz".
i thought it was an open secret that to visit teh fatcave or teh .datcha is to luxuriate in teh best of teh petester selections.
oddly, joe holds out. i fear that the whole tribeca / sf thing has clouded his mind as to teh shining path...
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Mike Evans
Mike Evans
originally posted by fatboy:
originally posted by Michael Lewis:
But Pete Creasey has really enlightened me, wine-wise. It is almost as though he revealed my personal "gentaz".
i thought it was an open secret that to visit teh fatcave or teh .datcha is to luxuriate in teh best of teh petester selections.
oddly, joe holds out. i fear that the whole tribeca / sf thing has clouded his mind as to teh shining path...
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Don't tell the Republicans that living in Tribeca and SF makes one less likely to become a Maoist Peruvian guerrilla . . .
Ross Massey
Ross Massey
And now Asimov piles on...
Progress came at a cost. “We learned to make wine but forgot how to cultivate,” he said. “Mechanization and herbicides replaced hoeing, plowing and hand work.” Mr. Trollat was not immune from the lure of progress. He used herbicides, although he never stopped working the land by hand. His wines were pure, rustic, soulful exemplars of St.-Joseph.
originally posted by Ross Massey:
And now Asimov piles on...
Progress came at a cost. “We learned to make wine but forgot how to cultivate,” he said. “Mechanization and herbicides replaced hoeing, plowing and hand work.” Mr. Trollat was not immune from the lure of progress. He used herbicides, although he never stopped working the land by hand. His wines were pure, rustic, soulful exemplars of St.-Joseph.
That was a good article, though no stunning changes to my perspective.
Did he really get a chance to interview Trollat? I had heard from indirect sources that I thought might be authoritative that he was in pretty tough shape.
You are quite right. I wonder what the answer is?originally posted by VLM:
I'd be interested in what Eric has to say, but all this re-claiming of historic vineyard sites is all well and good, but if they're suing new clonal material there may not be much of a point.
Eric Asimov
Eric Asimov
The good producers are all using massale. And you are right, simply rebuilding terraces is not enough. One of the coops has rebuilt terraces very wide and planted at a very low density to permit mechanical work.
By the way, Joe, Trollat seemed to be sharp and in very good shape.
By the way, Joe, Trollat seemed to be sharp and in very good shape.
originally posted by Eric Asimov:
The good producers are all using massale. And you are right, simply rebuilding terraces is not enough. One of the coops has rebuilt terraces very wide and planted at a very low density to permit mechanical work.
By the way, Joe, Trollat seemed to be sharp and in very good shape.
That is all great to hear, Eric, thanks much. Well, except for the part about the coop.
originally posted by Ross Massey:
And now Asimov piles on...
Progress came at a cost. “We learned to make wine but forgot how to cultivate,” he said. “Mechanization and herbicides replaced hoeing, plowing and hand work.” Mr. Trollat was not immune from the lure of progress. He used herbicides, although he never stopped working the land by hand. His wines were pure, rustic, soulful exemplars of St.-Joseph.
Geez, and here I thought Eric was now writing for the travel section and had gone to nw Missouri to visit my hometown (to which i had to shop wine when i went to my high school reunion in June).
originally posted by maureen:
originally posted by Ross Massey:
And now Asimov piles on...
Progress came at a cost. “We learned to make wine but forgot how to cultivate,” he said. “Mechanization and herbicides replaced hoeing, plowing and hand work.” Mr. Trollat was not immune from the lure of progress. He used herbicides, although he never stopped working the land by hand. His wines were pure, rustic, soulful exemplars of St.-Joseph.
Geez, and here I thought Eric was now writing for the travel section and had gone to nw Missouri to visit my hometown (to which i had to shop wine when i went to my high school reunion in June).
Don't worry, Maureen, we've always thought of you as the 'pure, rustic, soulful exemplar of St.-Joseph.'
originally posted by maureen:
(surely the worst beer on the planet).
Not a chance, though it does qualify as DNPIM.
Mark Lipton
Claude Kolm
Claude Kolm
Not only are the good producers using massale, but Clusel-Roch started a nursery some time ago to preserve the best vegetal material in the Northern Rhône, rather like what DRC is doing in the Côte d'Or (and I think Clusel-Roch may predate DRC in this effort).
originally posted by Claude Kolm:
Not only are the good producers using massale, but Clusel-Roch started a nursery some time ago to preserve the best vegetal material in the Northern Rhône, rather like what DRC is doing in the Côte d'Or (and I think Clusel-Roch may predate DRC in this effort).
matériel végétal? I'm guessing you mean budwood.