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Sunday 26 September 2010

Quarts de Chaume: say no to cryoextraction tomorrow

 Will the producers vote for this?

The Syndicat des Quarts de Chaume meets tomorrow to decide whether to permit the use of cryoextraction to concentrate the grapes/must. Two producers – Baumard and Laffourcade – have requested that cryoextraction should be allowed.

Along with Bonnezeaux, the Quarts de Chaume is the Loire top sweet wine appellation. There should be no place for cryoextraction here. I hope and trust that the Syndicat will reject this demand. 

For more details please see here, here and here.


or this?


Claude Papin (Château Pierre-Bise) is the president of the Syndicat des Quarts de Chaume. I am sure he would welcome your views on the use of cryoextraction in the Quarts de Chaume. His email address is chateaupb@hotmail.com 

2 comments:

Charles Sydney said...

Couldn't agree more, Jim. I never could understand the holier than thou refusal of the Chaume request for 1er cru status from a grower who seemingly makes moelleux this way. Weird!

Anonymous said...

Charles. Took a very instructive look at the vines in the Quarts de Chaume today. See my latest post on this blog.Jim