"Max Hauser" > wrote in
:

>
> 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."
>

Well, I guess I was confused when I saw it on Jadot's site, on the French
side...I've certainly had the basic Bourgogne before, but I think they
have changed the label somewhat. I know the words "Pinot Noir" weren't
red before...I'll have to snoop around and see what I can find.