Adieu, Pineau

[SFJoe]

Jules reports via Thierry Puzelat on the LDM website:

-As of early 2013, Pineau D'Aunis is officially de-classified from use in the Touraine AOC.

"If you start a new plantation in Sauvignon or Pinot Noir, you get a 10,000 euro subsidy from the minister of agriculture. If you plant Pineau d'Aunis, you get nothing."

Some more great thinking from the genius bureaucrats.

 

[Steve Edmunds]

plus you get your picture on the cover of the Wine Enthusiast!

 

[Sharon Bowman]

Oh, that is rough.

 

[Jay Miller]

This is the sort of thing that gives government bureaucracy a bad name.

 

[Cory Cartwright]

Sauvignon Blanc's reign of terror continues.

 

[SFJoe]

Kiwi envy can be so unattractive.

 

[Brézème]

Alas Joe, the bureaucrats have a little to do with this. Thats the ODGs who are in charge, and they are exclusively composed of elected vignerons!!!

The best side of democraty in a way...

 

[Jeff Grossman]

originally posted by Brézème:
Alas Joe, the bureaucrats have a little to do with this. Thats the ODGs who are in charge, and they are exclusively composed of elected vignerons!!!

Who got to vote in this 'election'?

 

[Tristan Welles]

Booo!

 

[Brézème]

originally posted by Jeff Grossman:

originally posted by Brézème:
Alas Joe, the bureaucrats have a little to do with this. Thats the ODGs who are in charge, and they are exclusively composed of elected vignerons!!!

Who got to vote in this 'election'?

Any vigneron or negociant.

 

[Jay Miller]

originally posted by Brézème:

originally posted by Jeff Grossman:

originally posted by Brézème:
Alas Joe, the bureaucrats have a little to do with this. Thats the ODGs who are in charge, and they are exclusively composed of elected vignerons!!!

Who got to vote in this 'election'?

Any vigneron or negociant.

The group obviously wasn't vetted for intelligence.

 

[Ian Fitzsimmons]

Majority rule has to be balanced by individual rights, or something like that. Wonder why the antis felt this action was worth taking; who was harmed by the P d"A?

 

[SFJoe]

The argument is along the lines of the Touraine having a clearer global marketing message if they strangle all the distinctive stuff and look more like New Zealand with limestone.

 

[Sharon Bowman]

 

[Ian Fitzsimmons]

originally posted by SFJoe:
The argument is along the lines of the Touraine having a clearer global marketing message if they strangle all the distinctive stuff and look more like New Zealand with limestone.

Right, I remember now hearing somewhere the motivation for this kind of thing is to 'brand' the appellation unambiguously vis-a-vis the rest of the world. Tant pis.

 

[SFJoe]

originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
...why not...

The Touraine really doesn't have a chance:

 

[Todd Abrams]

originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
...why not...

Yet some Kiwis want to be French.

 

[Bob Semon]

I should be hoarding?

 

[SFJoe]

I haven't aged much....

I would imagine that this will further undermine the AOC among the best producers and leave it even more in the hands of the crap producers.

 

[SFJoe]

I.e., that good producers won't seek the AOC for anything.