On Thu, 08 Jan 2004 07:02:47 +0100, Mike Tommasi > said:

] About the "blanc de blancs" labelling, it gets me quite riled up,
] because 99.99 % of still wines are blanc de blancs, and labelling it
] so is just a marketing ploy to make the average consumer think he is
] getting something different than other whites. When I see this, I
] immediately become suspicious. Here in Bandol, Domaine Ott does the
] same thing, and what is Ott's wine? Overpriced not very interesting
] wine with goood marketing. I am surprised to find Font de Michelle
] resorting to this, because they seem te be making good wine, and with
] the attention enjoyed by C9dP recently, they don't need any more
] marketing.

Yeah, I know what you mean. In all fairness it was in tiny letters hidden
at the bottom of the label. I hadn't even noticed it when I opened the
carton (well, the carton dissolved when I tried to pick it up) and scanned
for what exactly it was, but someone else pointed it out.

I don't think the Gonnet's have the recognition they deserve in the states,
which is what drives the prices up. And of course when this was made I
assume it was before the big CdP price explosion. As I understand it
their principle export market has always been benelux.

Glad to hear you say good things about Font de M., even though they
are perhaps less "slow" than you would like...

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