As you will find out from some of the other episodes, I do get some points wrong and tend to pronounce French words incorrectly. I’m working on this and really appreciate your comments. Hope to hear your thoughts on other podcasts, as well.

Cheers!

I now this pod cast is from ages ago but actually, I just discovered this series. While going trough this older series, I discovered a (very) small mistake in this chenin blanc cast.

When talking about the vouvray, you mentioned that the wine is a 100% chenin blanc although the bottle says “blanc de blanc” and by your book, the “blanc de blanc” means a blend.

Actually this is incorrect. “Blanc de blanc” means “white from white”, white wine from white grapes. Since the chenin blanc is a white grape, the “blanc de blanc lable” covers the lot.

Continuing on this, a blanc de noir wine is a white wine from red grapes etc…

Blanc de blanc and blanc de noir are quite common in the champagne region, where a blanc de blanc champagne is 100% chardonnay (the only white grape allowed in champagne blends) and blanc de noir is a pinot noir/pinot menuier blend (the other two red champagne grapes excluding the chardonnay).

Anyway. I am having a lot of fun caching up with the podcasts and enjoying them very much. Good job and good luck with it in the future.

Greetings from Belgium,

Wim

My tasting notes covered in the show are not intended to be exhaustive, just an example of some wines consistent with the theme. I take care to choose wines from different continents to illustrate how different the same variety can taste, as was the case with Chenin Blanc. At some point I’ll do a regional show on the Loire and have some more similar wines to compare.

Thanks again.

I appreciate the disclosure of your tastes, and wonder if perhaps Chenin Blanc is not the best wine style for you to cover. I found your coverage disjointed, since you discuss the great styles of Loire Valley Chenin in the introduction, yet only taste one example.