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RE: French wine recommendation

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jimbill

In Reply to: RE: French wine recommendation posted by lutesj@shaw.ca on September 28, 2010 at 16:49:33

That's a really broad question.

What area is she visiting? What are your preferences in wine?

My initial recommendation would be to find a good wine store in her ports of call (Google) and seek out the manager or the most enthusiastic sales person.

Lean towards 2005's and 2009's.

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RE: French wine recommendation - triodesteve 17:31:09 09/30/10 (3)
Good advice...trust the locals. A few years ago , my wife went to Italy for work. Beyond the obvious names, my knowledge of Italian wines is not what it should be. So it happened that the Spectator had just published reviews of Italians..I ripped it out and said here you go.
When she took that into the shop, the salespeople kept nodding their heads. The disagreed very much with the vintages recommended.
I wish I could tell you who was right, but the first bottle I opened (this is years later) was so badly corked, I didn't even bother to taste it. Damn cork.
Steve
- Screw tops forever! - jimbill 20:21:39 09/30/10 (2)
  Recent study showed them to be the most reliable closure.
  
  I have yet to have a tainted screw top wine.
  
  And I do find Italian wines confusing but intrigueing. I know a few grapes/regions that I like. But unlike other countries, they love diversity.
  - RE: Screw tops forever! - triodesteve 21:25:03 09/30/10 (1)
    I can find you studies that show all sorts of things. reliable as in no tca, sure. Reliable as a way to age wine? Reliable when 4 pallets are stacked on top of each other on an ocean liner? (not so much). I just bottled a new brand with screwcap (it's a lower priced table wine) and I'm going to screw cap on Riesling and Rose' next year, but I'll wait and see on reds.
    I buy pretty good corks, but there are no guarantees. What I get are wines that are just slightly corked...so many people won't even realize the wines are off. That's even worse than the really horrible, really off bottles that everyone would recognize right away.
    - RE: Screw tops forever! - jimbill 12:31:49 10/01/10 (0)
      I just saw a recent article in WS, don't know which one, where an organization took a 1,000(?) bottles of Semillion with all types of closures and aged them for ten years. Their findings were that the screw top aged the best as far as color and taste. But you're right, that is just one of many studies.
      
      As for me, I'm stilling betting on the screw top. If a winery bottled with both screw tops or corks I buy the screw top every time.
      
      As for taint, I've had several glasses at home or friends homes where I could taste it but nobody else seemed to notice.
      
      I also went to a classified Bordeaux tasting where one of the bottles was corked. Luckily the presenter caught it before pouring. This was a "by invitation only" where the folks there were good customers of the store. Quite a few people asked for the bottle to be passed around so they could smell it. I wondered if these people had never known what a tainted wine was?

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