http://blog.winetravelguides.com/2009/01/22/weekly-twitter-quiz-3-corbieres-fitou-cotes-du-roussillon/ News and Views from the World of Wine and Travel Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:15:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://blog.winetravelguides.com/2009/01/22/weekly-twitter-quiz-3-corbieres-fitou-cotes-du-roussillon/#comment-12 Sat, 24 Jan 2009 13:32:43 +0000 http://blog.winetravelguides.com/?p=215#comment-12 Thanks, Richard and so glad you are working hard – enjoy it.

]]> http://blog.winetravelguides.com/2009/01/22/weekly-twitter-quiz-3-corbieres-fitou-cotes-du-roussillon/#comment-11 Sat, 24 Jan 2009 13:05:46 +0000 http://blog.winetravelguides.com/?p=215#comment-11 I think I’ve been well and truly told off there! Sorry Wink, more updates are in the pipeline as you’re reading this… Expanding on Corbières / Fitou, which I’ve been exploring deeper and deeper over the last few weeks, and the ‘bit in the middle’; an additional line in the latest version of ‘Around Narbonne’ on http://www.winetravelguides.com probably accurately sums it up: “… no doubt local winegrower politics had something to do with it!” Allegedly producers in between, e.g. Embres-et-Castelmaure, wanted to stay in Corbieres. This obsession with creating so-called ‘cru’ appellations, then including everybody spread over a huge area (therefore many different terroirs) and claiming all the wines have something unique or in common, is plain ridiculous. They should have kept Fitou as the coastal vineyards around the town itself and created a different AC for the the western part – why not Corbieres – Mont Tauch for example?
Anyway, enough of the academic terroir twaddle. Back to the quiz – quite right, Quéribus overlooks the Corbieres, Roussillon and Fitou red wine areas.
Bye for now.
Richard
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