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Bob Parsons Alberta wrote:WTN: 2009 Domaine Manoir du Carra Fleurie.
served slight chilled
Ben Rotter
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Tim York wrote:This brings up the interesting issue of the right temperature for red Beaujolais... 13°C/55°F... I would be happy with that for fruity young generic Beaujolais or Beaujolais Villages... I think that the sturdier examples and particularly crus express themselves better slightly less fresh, say around 15°C/59°F... And other views?
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Ben Rotter
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Tom V wrote:OK, I have to get this off my chest, I really like Beaujolais Nouveau! Maybe I've just been lucky, but it's some of the very best under $10. wine that I've had the pleasure to enjoy. Ah, now I feel better.
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David M. Bueker wrote:$20.99 may seem tough to take, but the 2005 was $18.99, so looking at hte longer term...
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Robin Garr wrote:David M. Bueker wrote:$20.99 may seem tough to take, but the 2005 was $18.99, so looking at hte longer term...
Funny the 2008 was only $16.99 (Chambers Street). Vintage variation?
David M. Bueker wrote:Robin Garr wrote:David M. Bueker wrote:$20.99 may seem tough to take, but the 2005 was $18.99, so looking at hte longer term...
Funny the 2008 was only $16.99 (Chambers Street). Vintage variation?
Vagaries of the exchange rate.
ChaimShraga wrote:Marcel Lapierre, Morgon, 2009
I had a good run with my bottles of this wine, and it's hard to let go. This is still a fresh, fruity wine with silky tannins, a salty/earthy finish and lovely acidity, while the nose is typically pungent with a dusty, earthy appeal. I wish I could talk about this wine in fairly conventional tasting-notes qualifications of complexity and finesse and balance, but its charms are off on another plane, in the way it it riffs off a few simple themes (think of Neil Young as a reference point) that bring it close to to Nuits or Gevrey stylistically, without surrendering its grasp on its Gamay-ness. Very tasty, too.
Robin Garr wrote:Maybe, but I'm under the impression that the exchange rate is better today than it was two years ago, or five. But then, what do I know?
Rahsaan wrote:Robin Garr wrote:Maybe, but I'm under the impression that the exchange rate is better today than it was two years ago, or five. But then, what do I know?
I think today's exchange rate (or the exchange rate at time of your retail purpose) is a lot less important than exchange rate at time of importer's purchase.
Robin Garr wrote:David M. Bueker wrote:$20.99 may seem tough to take, but the 2005 was $18.99, so looking at hte longer term...
Funny the 2008 was only $16.99 (Chambers Street). Vintage variation?
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John F wrote:ChaimShraga wrote:Marcel Lapierre, Morgon, 2009
I had a good run with my bottles of this wine, and it's hard to let go. This is still a fresh, fruity wine with silky tannins, a salty/earthy finish and lovely acidity, while the nose is typically pungent with a dusty, earthy appeal. I wish I could talk about this wine in fairly conventional tasting-notes qualifications of complexity and finesse and balance, but its charms are off on another plane, in the way it it riffs off a few simple themes (think of Neil Young as a reference point) that bring it close to to Nuits or Gevrey stylistically, without surrendering its grasp on its Gamay-ness. Very tasty, too.
I love the Lapierre wines.......great value too
Robin Garr wrote:True, but let's review: $19 for the 2005. $17 for the 2008. $21 for the 2010. That's a significantly "U"-shaped curve over five years, and whether we pin it to importer's purchase or retailer's purchase or consumer's purchase time doesn't matter much: I don't recall that marked a pattern occurring in the Euro-dollar exchange rate at any time since the early 2000s. On the other hand, I haven't been traveling much in the last few years, so I may have overlooked something. To the best of your knowledge, has the exchange rate moved in that pattern at any time since 2005? Has it risen that dramatically since 2008? It appears to me that the Euro has dropped (along a jagged line) from $1.60 to $1.30 over the past four years.
Rahsaan wrote:To really get a handle on this we would need more comprehensive data on pricing across the US over several years and then track that with time of importer purchase and exchange rates. But I'm not about to do this!
Lyn Archer wrote:Hi:
Just joined your fine forum - any words of wisdom from folks who may have traveled to Beaujolais? My husband and I are heading there in May for our first visit. Cheers!
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