http://www.thevineroute.com/languedoc/faugeres-didier-barral-wine/ Stories, culture and people behind wine Wed, 08 Sep 2010 19:39:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 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.

]]> 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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