> I confess to not knowing who Jacqueline Friederich is.

she has written a very useful and good (imho) book on Loire wines some
time ago - if i remember correctly this did well with some prizes
etc.
more recently has a book on french wines. My experience with her loire
book was that she seemed quite good at telling you which growers'
wines you'd want to try and which you wouldnt - a few times while
trying Loire wines, when we 'strayed' from her recommendations we
would come to regret it! She also seems to like wines specific to a
region, not to say to a terroir, and is good at balancing that against
'fruitiness'. Hence my surprise to not see Hureau on the (lengthy)
list of hers - just curious really..

> Not surprising. WA doesn't have the widest coverage of Loire, though
> having David S. on board should improve situation. I also think Hureau
> doesn't have the widest distribution in US- I've heard good things,
> but never actually had one in memory.

i see - i've seen it in a number of places in boston, so assumed it
was available around the US - but we seem to be lucky with one or two
shops with a wide loire selectino around here. The bottles i have had
certainly were good, but so far i have not had their more prestigious
bottlings..

bogdan