Congratulations to Helen Turley! Noted winemaker Helen Turley and her husband, John Wetlaufer, just won $255,000 in back pay from Don Bryant of the Bryant Family for breach of contract. This was way below the $556,958 that the couple had asked. The jury decided that Ms. Turley had not looked for work elsewhere or something like that. This translates into a lot of Muscadet. Ms. Turley and Mr. Wetlaufer can now buy about 106,250 bottles of good-quality Muscadet, ex-cellar France. This is way below the 232,065 bottles they would have bought if they had won the amount they demanded. Either way, this makes for a lot of Muscadet. As a consolation, we will be sending Don Bryant a bottle of the 2002 Clos des Briords Muscadet, a wine that was highly praised in the Wine Spectator, but which has never received as many points as the Bryant Family wines made during Helen Bryant's tenure. It goes great with oysters.
This will help ease the pain of the quake in Paso Robles the no doubt cause quite a problem knowing the tight margins they work on.....
Paso Robles? You mean they make Muscadet there now too?
il cherche la bagarre!
Joe are there 232K bottles of great muscadet made??
I believe he wrote "good-quality" not great.
OK, I feel a little bit offended. Living 7 months a year in the Muscadet area, I can tell you that over the 2000 winemakers of the area, about 30 of them make EXCEPTIONAL wine from at least the level of Marc Olivier's.That makes something like 4 millions of bottles, I'm speaking about fantastic wine, not only "great with oysters".Don't need to be sarcastic with people sweading to sell their jewel under $3 a bottle to the export, suffering of the reputation of over 1500 winebulkers from the same area making dry bone liquid.one day I'll write down an anecdote about some Muscadet I sold in a summer restaurant in NY...that show the stupidity of customers.
OK, David. Names!
Jean-Michel et Laurent Poiron -Château Thébaud
qu'est-ce qui te tracasse?
David Ledu --
monsieur dresser! tu es d'une humeur massacrante aujourd'hui!
man! the sheriff sure is smart!
wetlaufer? isn't that the name of jack welch's squeeze?
Is he the grape jelly guy?
OkDoc, a agree that the Luneau are part of the very good Muscadet maker ( Sorry, I don't know Jo Landreau but only the domaine du Landreau..) although the terroir on the Landreau area can't bring what most of the terroir of the original appelation in1936 can bring.
joe can we get a few more great muscadets from you, i think we need 2 more producers
Tres rigolo!
I agree, Ledu, many a craftsman must kill themselves to sell their jewels, but perhaps we can all share the blame... Have not we all sucked up to the restaurant market? When was the last time they confessed to their clients that they often charge for food they could cook at home, and the profit is in the butt kissing. So to sum up, if you sell to restaurants, you necessarily are seeking the favor of people who do not see value, but rather fatuous suck ups. At least those vignerons in the Loire can rightfully point out that few of their clients can perform such magic with Melon.
Absolutely, Ian.
Joe, were-you thinking of Joseph Landron ?
Yup, that's the man.
Good choice, he is a good one !
David:
I can
putain!
I thought Buster was a dog? Who knew he was a "concept"?! Does he have a sequel?
Joe, next time I meet you in Person I'll give you my personal TOP30 porn web site for three reasons ; one: it is a TOP SECRET LIST which is the concentrate of thousands of hours on porn sites that I wouldn't give everyone,two: that stupid goverment might censure it ! three: I will give it only to very special person.Lucky you!
will it be in Magnums, or screw cap?
We're speechless, David.
Speaking of Cour Chevrny, that '96 by Cazin rocks! How about a library release, Joe? I'm all out!
Funny that I should stumble upon this. I'm now living and drinking in Muscadet 12mos/12. I generally go tramping about dans les vignes le moineau every weekend. Thanks for the list Ledu. I was in Gorges yesterday, trying to pay a visit to Brégeon, though I didn't call before. I hate calling before anyhow because being on a schedule prevents me from poking around here and there as I wish. Long story short, j'ai sonné chez brégeon sans réponse. Paraît-il que tout le monde était à Nantes, il y avait une espèce de féstival à la place Talensac avec 300 vignerons. J'ai donc volé de brégeon un petit bout du fameux sous-sol gabbro de Gorges comme souvenir avant de filer chez un assez inadmirable faiseur de muscadet du lieu dit d'à côté. |