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本帖最後由 fokker 於 2014-3-25 09:18 編輯
回復 gooseling #7 的帖子
You don' t and cannot look for it. You can browse through wineshops and may run into it, as this label is assigned to a certain wine from a certain vintage sumitted by a winemaker and this particular wine is judged by this panel to be good enough quality to carry this label. So, even the same wine made by the same winemaker from different vintages would not automatically get this label, for 2 reasons: first the wine from a different vintage might be of inferior quality and failed to get the endorsement; second, the winemaker simply does not submit the wine from a different vintage. Why does a winemaker does not submit the same wine from a different vintage? Well, a romantic way to think of it is that the winemaker does not feel that vintage is of good enough quality to get the endorsement, hence he passed on submitting.
But another harsh reality is that if the winemaker has made a genuinely good wine and has achieved good reputation and ratings from wine critics for successive years in a row and has no problem selling his wines, why would he bother to go through this process? As I already indicated, you ever seen a DRC with such label? Or a Roumier, Leflaive, Ramonet or Mugnier?
As mentioned above, the negociant Moillard has done this before and I could easily understand why. They are actually a good firm and I have enjoyed their wines a lot, but they are not really at the pinnacle of the Burgundy game. Honestly, have you heard of them? I actually visited their flagship store in Nuit-Saint-Georges some 20 years ago and they welcomed walk-in visitors without prior appointments, for tastings, which a lot of the bigger names would never allow. They have a lot of old wines in store; I remember seeing some 1949 Chambertins and 47 Cortons. You know what that means--that means they have trouble selling. They were good wines but not many people in Europe at the time would fork out 1500 French Francs to purchase them, as there is no guarantee of quality for a Burgundy of such an advance age, esp. for a negociant bottling.
So what do you do? You send it to the Conferee and hopefully get this stamp of approval in order to sell.
Ponsot, in the past, would send their wines to the Conferee as one of the senior Ponsots from era bygone was the major of Morey-Saint-Denis and also a grand judge ih the panel. I have not seen their wines with such a label in the past 20 years as now the name Ponsot equates superlative quality. Try your hardest and save up enough to locate their Clos de la Roche veille vignes 1985 and you will taste one of the best Burgundies ever made on Earth.
I have seen/drunk a Leroy with the tastevin label, but that was a negociant white capsuled village level wine, for which I suspect she or her managers had trouble selling for the asking price. Nevertheless, that particular wine was good for a village wine, to give the panel their due credit.
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