Cahors Light
Last week I made a stink about blogger ethics — something I really don’t care that much about. I alientated friends, bored readers and made myself feel like a doofus over a technical point that, all of seven days later, even I can’t bring myself to care about.
The backstory goes something like this: After not liking Chateau Lagrezétte’s Le Pigeonnier — a Cahors Malbec — the first time around, Palate Press agreed to a re-taste.
Anyway, they published the resulting re-assessment today, and writer Remy Charest gave the offended wine a good-faith second look. But:
…in the end, when I reread my notes, I can say that I didn’t like the wine once again, and that my general impression remains the same.
So we have sound and fury, signifying nothing. If that’s not blogging in a nutshell, I don’t know what is.
Read the whole thing: it’s way more interesting than my excerpt.
May 25th, 2010 at 1:02 AM
Good. Even though being gracious Is not something I know a lot about, I think you stopped just short of being gracious. Take that extra step.
As for Remy Charest, Cahors is not “malbec”. As he knows, the essence of European winemakng is that a wine is true to it’s place of origin. If you don’t like it but would recognize it as a Cahors, it is a “good” wine. He was there to taste and I wasn’t but my guess is he recognized le Pigeonnier immediately. I don’t normally like Lafite but I’ve never said it was not a good wine. Could Mssr. Charest be in the same position regarding le Pigeonnier?
May 25th, 2010 at 7:34 AM
The backdrop of the tasting was a festival in Cahors called “Malbec Days.” With all due respect to the French appreciation of terroir, I think it’s safe to describe Cahors wines as Malbec.