Comments on: Controversy in Beaujolais and Burgundy http://bbrblog.com/2009/07/15/controversy-in-beaujolais-and-burgundy/ The closest link between the people that make wine and the people that drink it Mon, 14 May 2012 21:29:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: billnanson http://bbrblog.com/2009/07/15/controversy-in-beaujolais-and-burgundy/comment-page-1/#comment-2499 billnanson Thu, 16 Jul 2009 07:08:10 +0000 http://bbrblog.com/?p=1386#comment-2499 "What we need is for the Beaujolais to regain its own valuable identity, not for it to be propped up by sliding under the wing of Burgundy" Agreed Jasper, and it would be particularly sad if Beaujolais were hoping to be propped up by sliding under the wing of those most generic, least terroir specific, regional appellations. Quality wine brings 'identity', but the current focus seems only on (generic) supermarket shelf-space. You can either have identity or best price per litre - one can't be taken away, as for the other, there are alway challengers... “What we need is for the Beaujolais to regain its own valuable identity, not for it to be propped up by sliding under the wing of Burgundy”

Agreed Jasper, and it would be particularly sad if Beaujolais were hoping to be propped up by sliding under the wing of those most generic, least terroir specific, regional appellations.

Quality wine brings ‘identity’, but the current focus seems only on (generic) supermarket shelf-space. You can either have identity or best price per litre – one can’t be taken away, as for the other, there are alway challengers…

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