On 02/15/2010 03:17 PM, Joseph Coulter wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:26:10 +0100, Emery Davis
> > wrote:
>
>> On 02/15/2010 01:35 PM, Joseph Coulter wrote:
>> []
>>> That is what I was thinking in my response. Malbec is a blending wine
>>> France but where it is the primary grape it is bigger thean Cab Sauv.
>>>
>>
>> Hi Joe,
>>
>> I'm sure you know, but Malbec is used as a primary grape in many Cahors,
>> and also in the Loire (Touraine principally) where it is known as Cot.
>>
>> Just to clear up a point...
>>
>>> For that matter Cab from CA and Bordeaux just don't seem to fit in the
>>> same glass, as it were, either.
>>>
>>
>> Never mix 'em.
>>
>> -E
> OOPS, that is what I meant in "where it is the primary" and of course
> I have this perception that there is a huge difference in Cahors and
> Touraine wines made from Malbec/Cot- when last did you hear of the
> black wines of Tours?

I like it: "The Black Wine of Tours." Hehe. (Sorry for the misread.)

-E