Vinophile

If no Franco-vinophile is likely to lose his allegiance to French wines after a visit to Piedmont, it should at least widen his horizons in one of the most attractive wine-producing areas in Europe.

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Apparently the entire family are keen – if amateur – vinophiles, and the carafe placed on our table was not only, we were assured, home bottled, but also home brewed.

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The early dominance of the French in the Mississippi Valley meant that many experiments by small communities and by individuals of that vinophile race—clerical as well as lay—were certainly made with both native and imported grapes.

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My own favourites were a 1976 Wintricher Ohligsberg Riesling Auslese and a 1977 Bernkastler Badstube Kabinett, and by the time I had sampled plenty of these and compared them, for scientific purposes only naturally, with a dozen or so other wines, I found myself saying, in all seriousness, that I found another wine – I think it was the ’76 Zeltinger Himmelreich Riesling Auslese – rather ‘leafy’. I do appreciate that ‘leafy’ is not a part of the vinophile’s largely inaccessible vocabulary, but I knew what I meant when I said it.

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