A French wine trade war

Re:A French wine trade war by cmrdporcupine on Sunday August 27, 2017 @12:13PM (#15111344)

I also make (have a 1/2 acre vineyard of my own) and collect wine and know wine makers. Yes none of them would use it. But they're not working for Gallo etc.

I am pretty sure the practice is mostly non-existent in Europe. At least in appellation wines.

But when people complain that low-cost wines are better in the new world, my experience is that they are invariably referring to the fact that they can get a consistent fruit forward 'shiraz' for $13 but when they taste a cheap French wine it's nothing like that.

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Re:A French wine trade war by myrandomcomment on Sunday August 27, 2017 @12:53PM (#15111535)

Sorry, I did not consider Gallo to be wine :)

Fair point however.

I have found in the last couple of years some makers have started to move to more of a French style. In the world of whites, the cougar juice is giving way to a better old world style wine.

I agree there are some suspect fruit bombs out there that people think wine should taste like. I hope that is changing.

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Re:A French wine trade war by newacct8086 on Sunday August 27, 2017 @12:35PM (#15111453)

Do you have some beginner-friendly links on what is and not allowed in French winemaking. I've always thought I'm paying only for the "Frenchness" and not anything specific about the winemaking process itself.

E.g., kinda like the German beer-making standard vs. "anything goes" Belgian-style ales.

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Re:A French wine trade war by anfractuosity on Sunday August 27, 2017 @01:29PM (#15111678)

Sorry for being off-topic but regarding the Reinheitsgebot this is really interesting:

https://www.europeanbeerguide.net/reinheit.htm

I'd also be interested to know what is and isn't allowed in wine.

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