Ch. la Renaudie 2002

Salut/Hi Joseph Coulter,

le/on Sat, 18 Mar 2006 17:51:38 -0600, tu disais/you said:-

Still pretty young, by the way. 2002 was an excellent year for serious wine makers, though quite difficult technically.

Ch Renaudie is a very good Pécharmant. According to their website it's biggest component is Merlot (45%) but with 30% of Cabernet Sauvignon, the remaining 25% being Cab Franc and Malbec. A very Bordeaux mixture in fact. I've met Yves Allamagny at a number of wine shows, and though I've never bought his wines directly, I've had them at a number of better restaurants. Which one did you get, the Ch 2002 or the 2002 cuvée vieilles vignes? The straight château wine is currently retailing at €8.50 and the vieille vignes at €15.

lovely effort which

I guess most of the locals - at least the most serious ones - use the services of professional oenologues to help and advise them. In today's world of tough international competition, they all need to make the best wines they can to succeed. Bergerac, as a region, like Bordeaux, is quite sharply divided into two. The ones who are really making an effort to compete and make good wines, and the ones who are content to make wines as they always have, and sell to the negoces (middlemen) at mickey mouse prices

- typically 40 cents US a litre.

So how was it?

Ian Hoare wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

It felt a little young on opening, that is what I meant by green. Technically defficult is scary term, but this wine did not show the kind of oak that I associate with the term.

It would have been the straight chateau, cheapskate that I am :-)

the wine was beautiful with the veal the tannins were relaxed and the greenness dissapated to reveal a smmooth and palate claensing wine that I would easily pay 20USD+ for ( the bottom line for me is does the wine work with dinner? and the answer was yes!)

Joseph, If this is an accurate rendering of what you saw, you need to tweak Xnews. Ian's message was encoded in the Unicode (UTF-8) character encoding (instead of the more common ISO-8859-1) and was indicated as such in his post's header records. You should check Xnews's settings and make sure that it's not set to *always* render messages in ISO-8859-1.

HTH Mark Lipton

Mark Lipton wrote in news:dvmmvd$cok$ snipped-for-privacy@mailhub227.itcs.purdue.edu:

I wondered about that, I usually see things right but lately I have noticed some strange renditions. Where do I go to cahnge the setting? The one thing I don't like about X news is the lack of documentation.

Since I don't use Winders, I had to look into this on the Web. It appears that you're SOL, as Xnews is stated to not support MIME (the standard used to get different character encodings). If you want, you could inquire in the news.software.newsreaders newsgroup.

Sorry! Mark Lipton

Mark Lipton wrote in news:dvni8r$r48$ snipped-for-privacy@mailhub227.itcs.purdue.edu:

Thanks I was beginning to think I couldn't navigate the program and find a nonexistent setting. It has been annoying, as I have seen a few of these posts int he past few weeks, Never the less, Xnews beats Outlook express hands down. post already made to news.software but hope is not really a part of the picture. Thanks again. I'll have another glass of Querceto Chianti Classico thank you very much.

Salut/Hi Joseph Coulter,

le/on Sun, 19 Mar 2006 07:48:49 -0600, tu disais/you said:-

Oh :-( I hate it when I mean one thing pretty simple and it gets understood as something completely different.

As far as I'm concerned, I meant that 2002 was a year when it was quite tricky to make good wine. That's all. Nothing about oak, or even ash!! :-)

And at the end of the day, that's what it's all about!

Ian Hoare wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

Agreed, it is just that the last time I heard the phrase, about the 97 St Emilion vintage FWIW the wine in questions was intolerably oaky.