http://www.drvino.com/2010/11/16/a-year-of-wine-personalized-copy/ wine talk that goes down easy Wed, 22 May 2013 03:17:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.drvino.com/2010/11/16/a-year-of-wine-personalized-copy/#comment-317765 michelecolline Wed, 17 Nov 2010 00:50:07 +0000 http://www.drvino.com/?p=7957#comment-317765 Carignan update…I heard back from a MW who lives in the south of France who says the appellation limits Corbieres to 50% in the blend except for those with primarily carignan in their vineyards(kudos to Leon for pointing this out). This seems to make the AOC a bit ‘redundant’ to me but so it goes. It seems a wine high in carignan would have to be labelled Vin de Pays(as Dave E. pointed out with d’Aupilhac in Monpeyroux)instead of Corbieres. I had read a book some time ago that stated the local AOC board was composed of local winemakers and they got together to taste all the wines from their region and decided if they were representative of the zone. If so, they passed. If this is in effect in Corbieres then all the wine must be is ‘worthy’ of the region. It seems to me the AOC should just limit the grape varieties and not specify percentages. And they lived happily ever after………..

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