"The New French Wine"
1I’ve tended to focus on California wines by winemakers I know and trust. (With an exception for Maderia…) I haven’t bought much French wine because I figured that it would be too much for my limited brain-power to comprehend, what with vineyard inheritance dividing things down to where every other row is owned by a different person with different ideas of winemaking. How to make sense of something like that?
The closest I’ve been able to figure out for French wine is: The more words that are on the label, the more likely it is to be good. (Sort of more specificness, like Rutherford bench vs. California.)
Well, for my birthday, someone gave me “The New French Wine” in two volumes. Finally! My chance to figure this out.
The first sentence in the book is:
C’est compliqué
Oh well…
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C’est vrai.
But even still, your heuristic isn’t going to work in Bordeaux. That’d actually get you the opposite result since usually “Chateau X” is the top wine while adding more words tends to mean that it’s a second or third wine.
e.g. Chateau Cantenac Brown vs. Brio de Cantenac Brown vs. Alto de Cantenac Brown
But the best way to learn is using RPM’s advice - pull lots of corks and remember what you drink! I’m happy to help
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@ffmj01 That’s emphatic!