"jcoulter" in :
> enoavidh > wrote in
> . 40:
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>> Hi, I have a question, then. Is this "legal"?
>>
>> http://www.louisjadot.com/vins/pinot_uk.html

That's a widely known label (available throughout the US and elsewhere, and
likely is some people's introduction to red Burgundy).

BTW it varies a lot with the vintage, as wines sometimes do. The 1996
available in the US was relatively stunning: weight and balance and
minerality like a village AC wine or better, and as I expected it matured
well in a few years. (At USD $12 or so.) At least one subsequent vintage
has been very good also.


These atypical labelings for export market still reflect much improvement
over the scandal in (?) 1976 when some cheap bulk red wine was found at
dockside in France (as I recall the story), marked "can be sold as
Beaujolais in USA."

-- Max