Will the producers vote for this?

The Syndicat des Quarts de Chaume meets tomorrow to decide whether to permit the use of cryoextraction to concentrate the grapes/must. Two producers – Baumard and Laffourcade – have requested that cryoextraction should be allowed.

Along with Bonnezeaux, the Quarts de Chaume is the Loire top sweet wine appellation. There should be no place for cryoextraction here. I hope and trust that the Syndicat will reject this demand. 

For more details please see here, here and here.

or this?

Claude Papin (Château Pierre-Bise) is the president of the Syndicat des Quarts de Chaume. I am sure he would welcome your views on the use of cryoextraction in the Quarts de Chaume. His email address is chateaupb@hotmail.com 

 

2006 Salon des Vins de Loire: stand of a bottle designer

Once again trying to sort out a few photos. These are from the 2006 Salon des Vins Loire and then from a tasting of vins clairs in the cellars of Langlois-Chateau.

Baumard poster

Saumur-Champigny – Esprit d'un terroir

Bernard Chéreau (Chéreau-Carré) with Annie and Aimé, who used to own the Hotel du Mail in Angers

Langlois-Chateau: Crémant de Loire rosé

Rue des Lapins – one of the galleries@Langlois-Chateau