Oh man this is massively tl;drfillegentilleMarch 30 2010, 20:17:45 UTC
orz décolletage is a word in English I swear /re-Googles just to make sure
I was completely confused by this comment this morning when I saw it, but then I caught up on the meme, and--ahaha, I think blacknoise and that anon talked me up a little too much. I'm a novice! Knowing the basics, having two or three textbooks at hand, and some judicious Googling covers the multitude of cracks in my knowledge.
Therefore! A look at my textbook says that blanquette de Limoux is a sparkling wine made from 90% Mauzac. You mentioned something about the laws being changed? Can you tell me about it? I want to know everything I can! It's all so interesting.
--and as for the Beaujolais Nouveau, I remember someone in my class, a girl who prefers hard liquors, talking about this OMG AMAZING RED WINE that was super-sweet and drinkable and could we try some in class? While the teacher looked on, nodding and smiling politely. We did not try it in class. But lol no I would not actually put it on a wine list. (I put that list together in like half an
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March 31 2010, 11:24:00 UTC
My bad, I though you were thinking of the french word, which is "décolté" with only one "e".
It's okay, don't worry. I didn't expect even this much.
It is! About the laws: First off, I might be biased because part of my family makes Blanquette de Limoux, amongst other wines. Second, the issue is with Champagne wines. "Chaptalisation", the action of putting sugar in wine to augment the alcoholic degree, is illegal in France. Except for Champagne, which gets a derogation, which gives them an unfair advantage over Blanquette, seeing that it means they can make more wine with the same volume of grapes (The "levures" used to make the bubbles feed on sugar, meaning that the consumed sugar cannot become alcohol. Therefore, while Blanquette has to balance alcohol/bubbles ratios carefully, Champagne can do pretty much whatever they want.)Blanquette de Limoux is apparently older than Champagne and then there's the whole issue of Languedoc wines being disregarded as "weaker in quality" than Bourgogne and Bordeaux when it's the other way around
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I'm sorry! It's been a hard last few daysfillegentilleApril 2 2010, 18:31:29 UTC
/scribbles down notes Appellation d’origine controlée, and there should be another diacritical mark in there somewhere, but I don't remember where.
A quick look at my textbook shows that at least Alsace also gets a derogation for chaptalizing wine :|a And then a look at Wiki shows that Bourgogne and Burgundy do, as well. Just to play the devil's advocate for a second--these are the regions with the best international recognition? But then again, the rules should be the same for everyone. (Except maybe Alsace, which is closer to Germany and is too cold for the grapes to ripen properly?)
And besides marketing, why are Languedoc's wines considered weaker in quality than the other two regions? I want know everything I can, so feel free to on on as much as you want!
But for simply getting plastered, for people who don't like red wine...!
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So, I hear you know about wine? And French food? If I say "blanquette de Limoux", do you know what I'm talking about?
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I was completely confused by this comment this morning when I saw it, but then I caught up on the meme, and--ahaha, I think blacknoise and that anon talked me up a little too much. I'm a novice! Knowing the basics, having two or three textbooks at hand, and some judicious Googling covers the multitude of cracks in my knowledge.
Therefore! A look at my textbook says that blanquette de Limoux is a sparkling wine made from 90% Mauzac. You mentioned something about the laws being changed? Can you tell me about it? I want to know everything I can! It's all so interesting.
--and as for the Beaujolais Nouveau, I remember someone in my class, a girl who prefers hard liquors, talking about this OMG AMAZING RED WINE that was super-sweet and drinkable and could we try some in class? While the teacher looked on, nodding and smiling politely. We did not try it in class. But lol no I would not actually put it on a wine list. (I put that list together in like half an ( ... )
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It's okay, don't worry. I didn't expect even this much.
It is! About the laws: First off, I might be biased because part of my family makes Blanquette de Limoux, amongst other wines. Second, the issue is with Champagne wines. "Chaptalisation", the action of putting sugar in wine to augment the alcoholic degree, is illegal in France. Except for Champagne, which gets a derogation, which gives them an unfair advantage over Blanquette, seeing that it means they can make more wine with the same volume of grapes (The "levures" used to make the bubbles feed on sugar, meaning that the consumed sugar cannot become alcohol. Therefore, while Blanquette has to balance alcohol/bubbles ratios carefully, Champagne can do pretty much whatever they want.)Blanquette de Limoux is apparently older than Champagne and then there's the whole issue of Languedoc wines being disregarded as "weaker in quality" than Bourgogne and Bordeaux when it's the other way around ( ... )
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A quick look at my textbook shows that at least Alsace also gets a derogation for chaptalizing wine :|a And then a look at Wiki shows that Bourgogne and Burgundy do, as well. Just to play the devil's advocate for a second--these are the regions with the best international recognition? But then again, the rules should be the same for everyone. (Except maybe Alsace, which is closer to Germany and is too cold for the grapes to ripen properly?)
And besides marketing, why are Languedoc's wines considered weaker in quality than the other two regions? I want know everything I can, so feel free to on on as much as you want!
But for simply getting plastered, for people who don't like red wine...!
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