tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8017457764988110566.post4175903786318975644..comments2023-10-09T11:45:33.422-04:00Comments on McDuff's Food & Wine Trail: Châteaumeillant in FocusDavid McDuffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03274955351036700406noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8017457764988110566.post-38792227255080914242009-08-26T00:27:52.108-04:002009-08-26T00:27:52.108-04:00Thanks for sharing the Châteaumeillant wine notes....Thanks for sharing the Châteaumeillant wine notes. It was nice going through it. Keep it up the good work. Cheers :)Hampershttp://www.colonialgifts.co.uknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8017457764988110566.post-45984604737005998672009-07-11T15:10:36.749-04:002009-07-11T15:10:36.749-04:00I just wrote about Chateaumelliant for the wineepe...I just wrote about Chateaumelliant for the wineepedia...<br /><br />http://sites.google.com/site/wineepedia/france/france_loire-4/france_loire_chateaumeillantLyle Fasshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10691042953720294290noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8017457764988110566.post-74738320919266508102009-07-06T12:23:28.561-04:002009-07-06T12:23:28.561-04:00Thanks, Jim. I can understand the desire to phase...Thanks, Jim. I can understand the desire to phase out the VDQS category, as its presence and justification has always seemed obscure at best. I do, though, need to come to a better understanding of the AOP and IGP categories.<br /><br />My guess that Geoffrenet-Morval's "Extra-Version" might fall outside of the AOC (assuming Châteaumeillant gains AOC status) was based purely upon the producer's own suggestion that the typicity of Châteaumeillant is best expressed through wines dominated by, if not purely based upon, Gamay.David McDuffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03274955351036700406noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8017457764988110566.post-17521709784374618862009-07-04T17:36:39.750-04:002009-07-04T17:36:39.750-04:00Excellent post David. Châteaumeillant like other V...Excellent post David. Châteaumeillant like other VDQSs had to decide by the end of last year whether to apply for AC ststus or become vin de pays as the VDQS category is now being phased out. <br /><br />As you suggest it may well be the hoops that the producers through which the producers are required to jump to gain AC status may put this wine outside concocted new AC rules.Jim's Loirehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06696024920441263899noreply@blogger.com