tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4919588063025303868.post5794096689508632781..comments2024-03-27T07:02:20.573-07:00Comments on Rot. by Adam Lechmere: 'Monsieur Figeac': the ousting of Eric d'AramonAdam Lechmerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07784788827206538951noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4919588063025303868.post-72257020942463263982013-05-01T20:32:11.140-07:002013-05-01T20:32:11.140-07:00'La marche inexorable du temps'...I rememb...'La marche inexorable du temps'...I remember, six or seven years ago, being toured through the old chais of Chateau Soutard by the new owners (the Red Baron had finally been brought down, as it were) and being told that all the old concrete vats would be replaced by thermostatically regulated stainless steel cuves.<br /><br />This isn't simply the false nostalgia of a Luddite, merely that it would be nice to have more points of difference, especially somewhere so commercially minded as Bordeaux (indeed, for the most part, the whole Vin Naturel phenomena has passed the 'classe superieur' by). Everyone in the region eventually gets assimilated by the circus; the tasters (their marks every year almost always follow the classification, bar the usual over-achievers like Pontet-Canet, etc.), the winemakers, the gerants, La Place, the merchants, its the same story every year.<br /><br />The real intrigue here, of course, is the family drama, but then there was always a sort of squalid undercurrent beneath it all...remember the old Petrus takeover...even the 'Red Baron's bought silence and exile in the south? Game of Thrones (Trones) eat-your-heart-out.<br /><br />PS - Figeac's new direction was warmly received by Robert Parker and his acolytes on the bulletin board.Oliver Styleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14970744602358637985noreply@blogger.com