Comments on: Didier Barral: Rebel with a cause http://www.thevineroute.com/languedoc/faugeres-didier-barral-wine/ Stories, culture and people behind wine Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:33:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Tom Fiorina http://www.thevineroute.com/languedoc/faugeres-didier-barral-wine/comment-page-1/#comment-509 Tom Fiorina Fri, 17 Sep 2010 13:28:57 +0000 http://www.thevineroute.com//?p=1#comment-509 Thanks, Peter, for your interesting comment and that link to the "legacy winemakers" website. I'm currently picking grapes at Domaine des Très Cantous in Gaillac. Robert Plageoles, from there, is a recognized expert on forgotten grape varieties of southwestern France. And Didier Barral is a "legacy" unto himself. I'll look for your book about South Africa's Pinotage grape. Thanks, Peter, for your interesting comment and that link to the “legacy winemakers” website. I’m currently picking grapes at Domaine des Très Cantous in Gaillac. Robert Plageoles, from there, is a recognized expert on forgotten grape varieties of southwestern France. And Didier Barral is a “legacy” unto himself. I’ll look for your book about South Africa’s Pinotage grape.

]]> By: Peter F May http://www.thevineroute.com/languedoc/faugeres-didier-barral-wine/comment-page-1/#comment-506 Peter F May Thu, 16 Sep 2010 11:31:24 +0000 http://www.thevineroute.com//?p=1#comment-506 Adam is quite correct. Regarding the 'renegade' (I think a better name would be legacy :) winemakers see http://www.vigneantan.com/en/index.htm I did quite a lot of research into Jacquez (aka Jacquet , Lenoir , Black Spanish) while writing my book on Pinotage and found Jacquez has an intriguing confused history and that the standard text books' statement that it originated in Madeira are not correct... There is a winemaker in the US fascinated with the variety who is researching the variety for his thesis and who is intending DNA analysis on it to see if the origins can be traced. Cheers Peter F May author of PINOTAGE: Behind the Legends of South Africa's Own Wine Adam is quite correct. Regarding the ‘renegade’ (I think a better name would be legacy :) winemakers see http://www.vigneantan.com/en/index.htm

I did quite a lot of research into Jacquez (aka Jacquet , Lenoir , Black Spanish) while writing my book on Pinotage and found Jacquez has an intriguing confused history and that the standard text books’ statement that it originated in Madeira are not correct…

There is a winemaker in the US fascinated with the variety who is researching the variety for his thesis and who is intending DNA analysis on it to see if the origins can be traced.

Cheers

Peter F May
author of
PINOTAGE: Behind the Legends of South Africa’s Own Wine

]]> By: tomfiorina http://www.thevineroute.com/languedoc/faugeres-didier-barral-wine/comment-page-1/#comment-450 tomfiorina Sun, 27 Jun 2010 18:24:22 +0000 http://www.thevineroute.com//?p=1#comment-450 You're absolutely right, Adam. Some additional research would have shown that this ban on American grape varieties is more about nationalism than rational reasoning. Thanks for your comment and for enlightening me about this falsely maligned grape. I hope that I'm able to taste some illegal Jacquez wine in France or some of that excellent southern U.S. Jacquez wine that you mentioned. You’re absolutely right, Adam. Some additional research would have shown that this ban on American grape varieties is more about nationalism than rational reasoning. Thanks for your comment and for enlightening me about this falsely maligned grape. I hope that I’m able to taste some illegal Jacquez wine in France or some of that excellent southern U.S. Jacquez wine that you mentioned.

]]> By: Adam White http://www.thevineroute.com/languedoc/faugeres-didier-barral-wine/comment-page-1/#comment-449 Adam White Sun, 27 Jun 2010 14:56:45 +0000 http://www.thevineroute.com//?p=1#comment-449 You should do a little more research before disparaging a grape variety. Jacquez is an excellent grape that is widely used in the southern U.S. (where it was introduced by French immigrants) to produce a variety of wines, ranging from banal to excellent. It's even still used in France by certain renegade winemakers who care little about EU regulations determining what they can or can't plant. Any notions about its' having deleterious effects on the drinker were shown long ago to be French propaganda, with no basis in science. The real reason its use was virtually banned in Europe, along with all other hybrids, is that it produces large yields with so little spray that the resulting wines that the market would have been flooded with inexpensive wine, causing the big wine powers and negociants to go out of business. You should do a little more research before disparaging a grape variety. Jacquez is an excellent grape that is widely used in the southern U.S. (where it was introduced by French immigrants) to produce a variety of wines, ranging from banal to excellent. It’s even still used in France by certain renegade winemakers who care little about EU regulations determining what they can or can’t plant. Any notions about its’ having deleterious effects on the drinker were shown long ago to be French propaganda, with no basis in science. The real reason its use was virtually banned in Europe, along with all other hybrids, is that it produces large yields with so little spray that the resulting wines that the market would have been flooded with inexpensive wine, causing the big wine powers and negociants to go out of business.

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