Recommendation for a french red 2002 "de garde

=20 =20 Emery, =20 I will be honest and say that I lack the ability of tracking all the wine= s=20 that I taste or drink (I am more a drinker than a taster). Also, I am not= =20 very good in describing wines. I would love to have the ability of Bill=20 Spohn or Dale Williams whose notes I read with delight. =20

TN: Pinots on Fri night
Betsy left yesterday for a weekend retreat, and I was thinking re leftovers & a night in front of the TV. Then that afternoon my friend Marc invited me to join his semi-regular...

I think you're with most of us on that. I don't really track everything ei= ther, and only post a note when it seems something is noteworthy.

Bill and Dale obviously are a) obsessed and b) have too much time on their hands to write it all up. :) I enjoy the copious notes too.

However, if anyone wants some information about any Spanish wine, and I c= an=20 be of any help, I am willing to offer some information, as I have done in= =20 the past.=20 =20

wine menus worth the price
umb=20 =20 =20 An old tip when travelling by car in France was to follow the next big tr= uck=20 when lunch time rolled around. You di not end...

I'll remember that your lurking about then.

From your previous message, should I guess that you are located in Anjou?= =20

No, but thanks to our marvy new autoroutes I'm only about an hour away. I'm up north in calvados country. Although there are some folks growing gamay not far from here, the closest "real" wines are from jasnieres.

Last year we had a terrific time visiting Pascal Laffourcade at Domaine d= e=20 la Echarderie, Mark Angeli at Domaine de la Sansonniere and Patrick=20 Baudoin. Lovely wines, charming people, a lot of love for their work. =20 Which other vignerons do you recommend for a possible next visit? =20

I know Baudoin is one of Mike T's favorites, and is making some lovely wines. Probably a top reference in the entire area. I like Jean-Pierre Ch= en=E9 at Dom Ambinos for the SGN CdL, also some very quaffable and affordable light Anjou red, if you like the style. Dom Roullet makes a fine CdL and a= lso some very nice cremant. Ogereau has en excellent CdL as well as a very fine dryer chenin. Of course there is Nicolas Joly...

On the subject of biodynamics in another thread, of course Joly is a sort of ambbuttador for the movement. Is Baudoin biodynamic, does anyone know?

Ian called it "neo-steinerite" or words to that effect, but wouldn't "clbuttico-steinerite" be more appropriate? :

-E --=20 Emery Davis by removing the well known companies

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