On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 23:48:59 +0100, Ian Hoare > said:

] Salut/Hi Emery Davis,
]
] le/on Sun, 13 Feb 2005 14:23:54 +0100, tu disais/you said:-
]
]
] >] From your previous message, should I guess that you are located in Anjou?
] >
] >No, but thanks to our marvy new autoroutes I'm only about an hour
] >away.
]
] Replying to your A28 comment in your message to me. I have that running
] between Amiens and Rouen, but I didn't know it was going elsewhere.
] Interesting.
]
] I have to say that my usual route up from us to Le Havre (our usual port for
] the UK) is up A20 which has the very great virtue of being toll-free down to
] Brive from Vierzon and not too busy, and thence up A71, A10 leaving just
] before Paris, to go via Rambouillet, Versailles and out on the A14. Will A28
] be a viable alternative?
]

I think it will indeed. It will connect Tours - Le Mans - Alencon - Rouen.
There is also the A88 which will connect Alencon Caen, but that won't be
finished until 2008 IIRC. The A28 will be finished this year. It currently
takes me over 2 hours to get to Rouen, that will soon be 45 minutes!

[]
] I should have added that I've had some excellent wines from adherents of
] Biodymanic principles, and that not all of them have adopted all the magic
] mumbo-jumbo. On the other hand, unlike Michael Tomassi I've had some
] disappointing wine from a Biodynamic producer. So I accept that most people
] prepared to go to the trouble of adopting the principles are likely to make
] good wines, though I am not certain that it's due to the Biodynamics more
] than the generally high standards of care that they use.
]

I think that's where most of us agree. You have to be such a cussed perfectionist
to even consider biodynamics, that's likely to show up in all areas of your
winemaking.

As you may recall I was educated in the Waldorf (Steinerite) system -- e.g.
Steiner School NY -- and although these are often excellent schools one
must take the anthroposophical hooey with a grain of salt (or aspirin...)

-E
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