Bi!! wrote on Thu, 27 Mar 2008 07:54:30 -0700 (PDT):

On Mar 27, 9:44�am, Mike Tommasi wrote:
?? st.helier wrote:
?? Mark Lipton wrote:
??
?? err... Bourgogne Passetoutgrains? �;-)
??
?? And "Mike Tommasi" wrote .........
?? err... Sauvignon de St Bris?
?? err... Bourgogne Aligot�?
?? err... Beaujolais?
??
?? His Lordship readily concedes - outside of Beaujolais,
?? small of amounts of Gamay (red) and in certain defined
?? areas, Aligot (white) are still grown, vinified, bottled
?? and sold �- �BUT ..........
??
?? All the above will be labelled according to the
?? individual labelling requirements: i.e. "Bourgogne
?? Passetoutgrains" or "Appellation Bourgogne Aligot�
?? Control�e".
??
?? My contention is that none of the abovementioned would be
?? *normally* termed Burgundy - either red or white!
??
?? Either or both of you may feel free to argue otherwise
?? ;-)
??
?? However, I am surprised that neither of you picked up on
?? my error �- Burgundy covers closer to 25,000 ha (60,000
?? acres) !
??
?? Yes Beaujolais tends to be seen as a separate wine growing
?? area, but surely M'Lawd the Burgundy Alley Goat is...
?? Burgundy? And the Sauvignon de St Bris is, no doubt about
?? it, Bourgogne, adminstratively and in wine terms...
??
?? --
?? Mike Tommasi - Six Fours, France
?? email linkhttp://www.tommasi.org/mymail- Hide quoted
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B Actually we're getting close to defining just how many
angels
B can dance on the head of a pin.
B Oop......almost forgot ;-)

I thought the final answer there was that angels were
dimensionless, so as many as you want! They aren't dimensionless
but Champagne districts behave like angels :-)

James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

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