Tag: auvergne
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COTE ROANNAISE – Domaine du Picatier, Saint-Haon-le-Vieux
Renown doesn’t shower down unbidden upon winemakers in the Côte Roannaise, a 200ha swathe of vineyards in the neglected hinterlands between the Beaujolais and the Auvergnat industrial center of Clermont-Ferrand. For Christophe and Géraldine Pialoux of Domaine du Picatier, who began making wine in 2007, the challenge was exaggerated by a pulverizing succession of rough […]
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AUVERGNE – François Dhumes, Orcet
Among the peculiarities of wine tasting in Auvergne is the distinction made between the native gamay d’Auvergne grape and what many Auvergne winemakers confusingly refer to as “gamay du Beaujolais.” By this they mean a variety (presumably clonal) of gamay relatively recently imported from the Beaujolais, and not, as one might infer from the syntax, […]
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