vu de touraine

Loire 2010: the vintage of the decade!!!

Vu de Touraine

Par les5duvin

2010 Sauvignon Blanc, Cher Valley Although it is a very sound principle to be very wary of hype propagated by wine producers and disseminated by journalists, 2010 in Loire will certainly be the best vintage to date of the second decade of the 21st Century....

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No room in the AC

Vu de Touraine

Par les5duvin

Château du Petit Thouars I have to admit a sliver of disappointment that our most prominent follower and distinguished former medical man was unable to diagnose the malady that the Touraine reformists have contracted. I can only assume that the disease...

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En attendant Godeau (celui de Touraine)

Vu de Touraine

Par les5duvin

Une fois n'est pas coutume, je duplique un post publié sur mon blog perso. Mais j'ai deux bonnes raisons. Primo, cela concerne un autre des 5, à savoir Jim. Secundo, je n'aurai pas trop d'un deuxième blog pour faire aboutir la démarche, qui a je ne sais...

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Le Tour de France (Part One): more spills than thrills

Vu de Touraine

Par les5duvin

2009 Le Tour: Café du Nord, Menetou-Salon Le menu sportif After the entrées – Roland Garros, Wimbledon, The World Cup and the Giro d’Italia – le plat principal: Le Tour de France. For the moment there have been more crashes than thrills – leading up to...

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Une valeur sûre (No2)

Vu de Touraine

Par les5duvin

Last Wednesday we held a rare vertical of the AC Touraine wines of the Clos Roche Blanche. Rare in several ways as it is very unusual to give straight Touraine wines this sort of respect and probably unusual to be able to assemble such a range of wines...

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Une valeur sûre

Vu de Touraine

Par les5duvin

1989 Cabernet, AC Touraine, Domaine Michaud In these days where much of the wine comment and news is dominated by the madness that is the Bordeaux en primeur circus, it is great to be reminded of real value. A couple of examples of wines enjoyed during...

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The discretion of Pierre-Jacques

Vu de Touraine

Par les5duvin

It was fortunate that the bottle of Bourgueil Rosé of Pierre-Jacques Druet, the vinous mid-wife in attendance at the birth of Les 5 du Vin, was drunk at the salon des Vins de Loire. For had the five of us made our separate ways to visit Pierre-Jacques...

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Les trois propositions de Didier Barrouillet

Vu de Touraine

Par les5duvin

At first sight it is decidedly curious that the C word (culture) is silent in appellation contrôlée. There are detailed regulations on the number of vines per hectare, permitted grapes varieties, yields, pruning systems and the number of buds allowed...

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You can’t escape terroir – it’s everywhere!

Vu de Touraine

Par les5duvin

I spent a very enjoyable three hours on Saturday afternoon in the centre of Tours tasting 2009s at the 8th Fête des Vins de Bourgueil. Broadly the wines divided into two – spring cuvées from vines planted on the gravel and wines to keep that will be bottled...

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A rather silent spring in Touraine

Vu de Touraine

Par les5duvin

This is the week without pesticides – ‘semaine pour les alternatives aux pesticides’. It is a generous week running from 20th – 30th March. The ‘semaine sans pesticides’ falls at a good time for now is moment when many of the vignerons in eastern Touraine...

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