CAHORS, THE FRENCH MALBEC – MARATHON TASTING
During an extremely short press-trip to Cahors (3 days) organized by the UIVC (Union Interprofessionnelle du Vin de Cahors), I had the chance to taste more than 120 Cahors AOP wines in two morning sessions. The tastings took place at the blind tasting, control and research Centre of the Cahors wine profession in Anglars-Juillac. In [...]
CAHORS: HISTORIC CAPITAL OF MALBEC (4)
Please red the previous message before this one WHAT ARE TYPICAL CAHORS MALBEC AROMAS? This is of course again a short generalization; all depends on terroir, (micro) climate, style, vintage etc. However, during the marathon tasting in Cahors, I had the chance to check it and it is quite representative. Very common are fruit aromas [...]
CAHORS: HISTORIC CAPITAL OF MALBEC (3)
Please red the previous message before this one A NEW GENERATION Cahors image has still to be a bit improved, especially in the lowest range of quality. The old ‘bulk’ quality for jug wines offered in the past decades was a bad caricature of what Cahors should be. This is changing slowly but surely in [...]
CAHORS: HISTORIC CAPITAL OF MALBEC (2)
Please red the previous message before this one CAHORS: OLD HISTORY The promotion stories mention that ‘Cahors is considered to be one of the oldest wines of Europe’, bringing it back to more than 2,000 years ago, during the Roman times. That shows quite an old ‘political’ vision of what Europe can be. I know [...]
CAHORS: HISTORIC CAPITAL OF MALBEC (1)
During a short press-trip to Cahors, I was once more amazed and amused to see how the French still are using quite a lot of clichés and French-rooster-alike (Fr: cocoricoësque) marketing slogans in their promotion campaigns. One of my favourites was “Cahors: historic capital of malbec”. This is a nice try of using the increasing [...]