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“In 1954 the village council of Châtauneuf-du-Pape was quite perturbed and apprehensive that flying saucers or ‘flying cigars’ might do damage to their vineyards were they to land therein. So, right-thinking men all, they passed an ordinance prohibiting the landing of flying saucers or flying cigars in their vineyards. (This ordinance has worked very well in discouraging such landings.) The ordinance further states that any volitional object that did alight was to be taken immediately to the pound.”

There are those who subscribe to truth-in-origin, and others who dismiss this notion as silliness. You could count the French, however you feel about them, most Europeans, the Slow Food Movement and perhaps Alice Waters among the former. The latter are of the flat-earth persuasion: the Mondovino coterie, the varietally obsessed wine lovers who discount the origins of wine and those who uphold McDonald’s uniformity of quality as something to attain as a goal.

In episode #10 ChrisO in Napa, JonM in Snowmass, and Windy City Wine Guy in Chicago discus almost everything sparkling.
We wish you a very happy beginning to 2009.
Cheers,
ChrisO, JonM and the Windy City Wine Guy!
Show #10 m4a format
(42:00min 17.6MB)
Some of the wines we discussed in this episode:
1999 Champagner  Dom Pérignon
NV Champagner Bollinger Spevial [...]