Sharon Bowman
Sharon Bowman
Spare the trip. It's OK in a pinch, but not really worth meditating on, to my tastes.
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provocative statement re Loire cab franc
- Thread starter Jeff Grossman
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Spare the trip. It's OK in a pinch, but not really worth meditating on, to my tastes.
"We depart from convention by treating Saumur, Bourgueil (including St-Nicolas de Bourgueil) and Chinon as a single sub-region; Saumur is usually grouped with Anjou to the west, and the other appellations with Touraine to the east. It is in fact an area of transitions from the Touraine’s chalk to Anjou’s ancient rocks, from the continental climate of the centre to the softer maritime weather of the coast and of conflict between two Celtic tribes (the Andes and the Turones), through two dynastic families (the Plantagenets and the Capetians), to the present day."
robert ames
robert ames
originally posted by Yixin:
"We depart from convention by treating Saumur, Bourgueil (including St-Nicolas de Bourgueil) and Chinon as a single sub-region; Saumur is usually grouped with Anjou to the west, and the other appellations with Touraine to the east. It is in fact an area of transitions from the Touraine’s chalk to Anjou’s ancient rocks, from the continental climate of the centre to the softer maritime weather of the coast and of conflict between two Celtic tribes (the Andes and the Turones), through two dynastic families (the Plantagenets and the Capetians), to the present day."
wanna tell us who you are quoting?
Jeff Grossman
Jeff Grossman
originally posted by robert ames:
originally posted by Yixin:
"We depart from convention by treating Saumur, Bourgueil (including St-Nicolas de Bourgueil) and Chinon as a single sub-region; Saumur is usually grouped with Anjou to the west, and the other appellations with Touraine to the east. It is in fact an area of transitions from the Touraine’s chalk to Anjou’s ancient rocks, from the continental climate of the centre to the softer maritime weather of the coast and of conflict between two Celtic tribes (the Andes and the Turones), through two dynastic families (the Plantagenets and the Capetians), to the present day."
wanna tell us who you are quoting?
It is his very self.
Oswaldo Costa
Oswaldo Costa
originally posted by Yixin:
"We depart from convention by treating Saumur, Bourgueil (including St-Nicolas de Bourgueil) and Chinon as a single sub-region; Saumur is usually grouped with Anjou to the west, and the other appellations with Touraine to the east. It is in fact an area of transitions from the Touraine’s chalk to Anjou’s ancient rocks, from the continental climate of the centre to the softer maritime weather of the coast and of conflict between two Celtic tribes (the Andes and the Turones), through two dynastic families (the Plantagenets and the Capetians), to the present day."
Hot!
Oswaldo Costa
Oswaldo Costa
originally posted by Don Rice:
2010 Sensei by Source du Ruault was fab.
Per Wine-Searcher, borderline unicornish.
Larry Stein
Larry Stein
originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:
originally posted by Don Rice:
2010 Sensei by Source du Ruault was fab.
Per Wine-Searcher, borderline unicornish.
Don, what's your take on the time lines for the '10 Source du Ruault AC, Sensei, and Clos de la Cote bottlings?
originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
originally posted by robert ames:
wanna tell us who you are quoting?
It is his very self.
From just over 3 years ago, if memory serves. I find the familial resemblance within Sau-Bour-Chi more apparent than between Anjou and Saumur, or Chinon and the rest of Touraine.
Chris Coad
Chris Coad
Fucking Plantagenets.
kirk wallace
kirk wallace
Nice work, if you can get it.
Oswaldo Costa
Oswaldo Costa
Capetians and Capulets.
Jeff Grossman
Jeff Grossman
Sounds better than "Capetians and Redi-Tabs", which I think was under consideration.originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:
Capetians and Capulets.
Jeff Grossman
Jeff Grossman
originally posted by Yixin:
originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
originally posted by robert ames:
wanna tell us who you are quoting?
It is his very self.
From just over 3 years ago, if memory serves. I find the familial resemblance within Sau-Bour-Chi more apparent than between Anjou and Saumur, or Chinon and the rest of Touraine.
I think I can taste something distinctive about Chinon; the others are much harder for me to distinguish (if I even can).
Jeff Grossman
Jeff Grossman
And then there's Chavignol rouge: Paul Thomas 2012 Sancerre Rouge - a bitterness of cranberries (or pomegranate) and a dusting of chalk, very mineral, not floral, lightweight texture, nice stuff. Nothing whatsoever like Bourgueil.
originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
And then there's Chavignol rouge: Paul Thomas 2012 Sancerre Rouge - a bitterness of cranberries (or pomegranate) and a dusting of chalk, very mineral, not floral, lightweight texture, nice stuff. Nothing whatsoever like Bourgueil.
it's a pinot dude
originally posted by BJ:
originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
And then there's Chavignol rouge: Paul Thomas 2012 Sancerre Rouge - a bitterness of cranberries (or pomegranate) and a dusting of chalk, very mineral, not floral, lightweight texture, nice stuff. Nothing whatsoever like Bourgueil.
it's a pinot dude
Is Pinot dude anything like Pinot gouges? For dudeologists?
Mark Lebowski