sieur d ' arques
une histoire d' hommes et de passion. film institutionnel présentant la maison sieur d' arques
four centuries later, in 1946, the founding winemakers of our winery christened their wine, sieur d’arques .
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a lawyer for sieur d' arques, jean - marie bourland, told agence france - presse :
there is no prejudice. not a single american consumer complained .
in a statement on its website it said it was
deeply disappointed
to learn its supplier, sieur d' arques, had been found guilty of selling falsely labelled french pinot noir .
aimery sieur d’arques is situated 25 km from carcassonne. one of the leading wine organizations in the languedoc region, aimery sieur d’arques combines the latest wine producing technology with a healthy respect for tradition. considered a pioneer in languedoc roussillon in terms of quality of production and wine - growing techniques, la cave des vignerons du sieur d’arques was one of the first wineries in the eighties to develop plot - based selection in its 2800 hectares of aoc vineyard. the terroir which benefits from the mediterranean sun, tempered by the proximity to the pyrénées and the influence of the atlantic ocean, combines the ideal conditions for producing great wines .
the defendants, from two firms, received suspended jail sentences and fines between 3, 000 and 45, 000 euros. reuters reports that one firm, sieur d’arques, had to pay a fine of 180, 000 euros .
a view of the sieur d' arques wine merchant in limoux, southwestern france, thursday feb. 18, 2010. a french court has convicted wednesday a dozen wine merchants and wine growers for selling and exporting fake... more
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according to the french investigation, however, gallo had little to do with the production of the wine. rather, gallo, which has not been implicated in any wrongdoing, bought bulk wine from a company called sieur d' arques, which in turn purchased the alleged “pinot noir” from a bulk wine broker, ducasse wine merchants. both sieur d' arques and ducasse were convicted of the fraud, though sieur d' arques maintained that it was duped into buying fraudulent wine it believed to be pinot noir. apparently the ducasse firm purchased cheaper merlot and syrah from various cooperatives around carcassonne and passed it off as the more expensive pinot noir. french authorities believed the scam amounted to about 7 million euro profit from january 2006 through march 2008, according to an article in the guardian .
sieur d' arques, created in limoux in 1946, is a major player in languedoc wine sector. endowed with latest technical expertise and a long rich tradition of winemaking. discover how the cooperative operates, how the vine is worked, grape harvesting ...
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a view of the sieur d' arques wine merchant in limoux, southwestern france, thursday feb. 18, 2010. a french court has convicted wednesday a dozen wine merchants and wine growers for selling and exporting fake pinot noir in a lucrative fraud scheme. a leading u. s. wine merchant in the case says he may appeal. among others, the fraud victimized california - based giant e. & j. gallo winery. sieur d' arques, was convicted of fraud and fined euro 180, 000 ($ 244, 000). less
at sieur d' arques, we are eager to satisfy every occasion and every palate with our sparkling wines. that is why we create history every day by signing - out sparkling wines of great finesse and elegance in order to make each tasting moment a unique and memorable experience .
before arriving at the cave sieur d' arques, we decided to drive through this beautiful small speciality region. the winding road climbs gently higher until it reaches les serpent, literally at the foothills of the pyrenees. in early october the picking must have just finished as ...
the fines ranged from 1, 500 euros ($ 2, 050; £1, 300) to the top figure of 180, 000 euros ($ 247, 050; £156, 500) for sieur d' arques. the judge said that the accused together made seven million euros in profits from the scam .
on february 17, 2010, 12 people from the languedoc - roussillon region of france were convicted by a court in carcassonne in connection with the fraud, including the head of ducasse, claude courset (described as the
kingpin
of the scheme), executives at sieur d' arques, and several cooperatives .
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since 1946, sieur d' arques, located in limoux (25km from carcassonne), perpetuates a passionate tradition that has established the languedoc - roussillon as a creator of exceptional vintages. their historical expertise, their eternal quest for quality, excellence and technical mastery allow them to sign - out some great wines for the enjoyment of all demanding wine lovers .
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the history of the languedoc vineyards dates back to the fifth century bc, when the greeks introduced the vine and its cultivation techniques. but it wasn’t until 1531 that the benedictine monks of the st hilaire abbey, a village close to limoux, produced the first sparkling wine in the world… the world’s first sparkling wine was born. seduced by this sparkling wine, a local lord, the sieur d' arques got into the habit of quaffing
flascons
of blanquette to celebrate his victories. four centuries later, in 1946, inspired by this historical anecdote, the winery’s founders took on the name of sieur d' arques. since that day, the company has perpetuated the work of its remarkable artisans in a true desire to share their ancestral know - how with all lovers of exceptional wines .
the fallout of what we' ll call pinotgate began last month with 12 fraud convictions in a french court for selling to e & j gallo wine labeled as pinot noir that was nothing of the sort; it was actually merlot and syrah. the defendants, vintners and co - ops in southern france, were accused of distributing wine through sieur d' arques, a large languedoc wine merchant, that went into gallo' s red bicyclette label .
sieur d' arques, created in limoux in 1946, is a major player in languedoc wine sector. endowed with latest technical expertise and a long rich tradition of winemaking. discover how the cooperative operates, how the vine is worked, grape harvesting and the limoux wines making process. finally, a wine tasting session about the different wines of the appellation limoux. every year, we organize four walks to explore the wines of toques et clochers .
steeples of limoux’s soils have, for over twenty years, conquered the great chardonnay lovers. with this crémant toques & steeples, sieur d’arques sign another great wine, inspiring and vibrant, sophisticated and complex expression of a terroir revealed by a singular compelling expertise. this blend dominated by chardonnay, strictly selected for its smoothness and radiance, was fired in april and disgorged in january. it was me great pleasure to have been those who have given birth to this crémant toques & steeples .
the history of the languedoc vineyard dates back to the 5 th century bc when the greeks first introduced grape vines and their cultural practices. it was in 1531, one century before dom pérignon, that wines from limoux stepped onto the world stage thanks to benedictine nuns from the st hilaire abbey, a neighbouring village, who created the first sparkling wine in the world: la blanquette de limoux. the earliest written references to blanquette de limoux can be traced back to the lord of the region, “le sieur d’arques” who swigged down “flasks of blanquette” to celebrate his victories .
this excellent chardonnay comes from the caves du sieur d' arques cooperative based at limoux in the aude region of the languedoc. the co - op was founded in 1946 and today has over 400 members. the' toques et clochers' chardonnay was first introduced in 1989 and takes its name from the gala dinner held every year and cooked by a celebrity chef (hence the chef' s hat -' toque') whilst the wine is auctioned and the proceeds used to maintain the church bells of a different wine village every year (hence the' clochers'). aged in new oak, this superb white bears many of the hallmarks of a lighter white burgundy .
“we are deeply disappointed to learn today that our supplier sieur d’arques has been found guilty of selling falsely labeled french pinot noir as recently as march of 2008. based on the available information of the pinot noir that the french courts have investigated, gallo imported less than 20% of the total and is no longer selling any of this wine to customers. we believe that the only french pinot noir that was potentially misrepresented to us would have been the 2006 vintage and prior. we want to assure our consumers that this is not a health and safety issue and that we will continue to work with the appropriate u. s. authorities to determine any next steps required for potentially mislabeled pinot noir in the marketplace. ”
we went for a wedding near limoux. while there, new friends introduced us to brut. they advised us to go to sieur to try out the different bruts and enjoy the inexpensive taste of heaven. the museum was cool to go to... nothing too elaborate but ...
following the recent scandals about horse meat found in ‘beef’ burgers and, worse, ‘calimari’ made with pig rectum, we thought we’d have a look at some oh - so - shocking scandals in the global wine industry from dubious labelling, to the wrong wine in the bottle and the addition of ‘special’ ingredients .
languedoc has been known for centuries for producing simpler and cheaper wine, which has sometimes been passed off by wine merchants as more expensive wine from bordeaux or burgundy. the french appellation d' origine contrôlée (aoc) system was created in the 1930s to prevent the practice of mislabeling or diluting expensive wines with cheaper ones .
sieur d' arques toques et clochers - haute vallée 2012 - limoux tasted by the best sommelier in the world andreas larsson. crisp, green apples, fresh almonds white wine, with a quite light almost transparent colour, there’s a slight hint of straw yellow. the nose is clean, it also feels rather on the young side. i would call this more restrained in a cooler climate style, with fresh lemon, almond, rather white fruit like quince and green apple; feels more like a cool climate chardonnay. palate is still youthful, it has a fresh crisp acidity, classically bone - dry, nicely salivating on the palate. it has a slightly lighter body, but good, nice fruitiness, still a bit youthful and restrained. some notes of lemon zest on the finish, young fruit, quince, green apple. vinified in a nice, clean and fresh style. a wine that can perhaps get a slight aeration or another one to two years to open up. more information: urltoken facebook: urltoken... twitter: urltoken blog: urltoken
i remember buying a bottle of this in florida a couple of years ago and actually tossing out the second half of the bottle because the stuff was just undrinkable. i' d sooner have drunk a glass of vinegar. i blamed the storage at the place i bought it but i see that i may have been unfair to them now .
in regard to the tasters guild international wine competition, the tastings are done blind. the only information that is provided to the judges is the varietal, vintage, and the residual sugar. tasters guild international has two annual competitions. the competition in the washington d. c. area takes the price point into consideration whereas the michigan judging does not .
but believe me when i tell you that there is nobody, not even a person whose tastebuds have been destroyed by a lifetime of cigarettes, who would not have noticed the shortcomings in that bottle of wine. the only reasonable answer is that nobody at e & j; gallo ever bothered to taste the stuff themselves. i' m sure they' d have known .
damien, are you suggesting most major champagne houses are taking us for a ride? ! i’d put a lot of money on any given retailer being unable to give you the names of the growers for any major champagne houses. additionally, knowing who makes the wine once it’s in the winery doesn’t help either because you can’t guarantee it won’t be fiddled - with there (ref: duboeuf or brunello scandal) .
take for example the 1985 diethylene glycol wine scandal in austria which embroiled a small number of wine producers who thought they’d be clever and add this toxic substance (which incidentally is also a primary ingredient of some types of antifreeze, a fact the media loved !) to their wines to make them taste sweeter and more full - bodied. they were discovered when the adulterated wine was sent to germany and (again illegally) blended into german wines – german quality control labs then picked up the diethylene glycol and, as they don’t say in france, le vin hit the fan. all in all though it was probably a good thing for the austrian wine industry long term. short term of course it was a total disaster since the mere suggestion of ‘antifreeze’ in austrian wine was enough to cause a complete collapse of wine exports. but it did force the industry to take a good, long, hard look in the mirror and to focus production on other types of wine, moving away from sweet wines towards dry white wines and targeting a higher market segment .
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if it is from 2006 or earlier, gallo says, red bicyclette pinot noir is no such thing. (gallo )
do you really know what you' re drinking? headlines this week screaming fraud in wine production in france for a popular brand sold in the united states may make you wonder .
yesterday, a french court in carcassonne convicted 12 people from the languedoc - roussillon region of passing off merlot and syrah wine as pinot noir to the u. s. firm e & j; gallo for its red bicyclette brand .
red bicyclette debuted with the 2005 vintage and sells for about $ 8. there are also a chardonnay, syrah, merlot and a rosé that have not been implicated in any scandal. gallo markets the brand as offering a taste of southern france. a tech sheet for the 2006 pinot noir on the brand' s web site gives details about the soils where the grapes were grown, how the grapes were handled during production and how a mere 3 percent of the wine was matured in french and american oak barrels, giving the impression that gallo was intimately involved in the production of the wine. (the tech sheet also states that the wine contains 10 percent grenache and 5 percent syrah, which while not stated on the label is quite legal. the u. s. government allows a wine to be labeled as single varietal if 75 percent or more of the wine is from that grape. )
how did the french authorities cotton on to the scam? well, someone noticed that more pinot noir was being sold from the languedoc - roussillon than the entire region produced. that' s pretty easy math .
not surprisingly, the british press reacted to the news of the convictions with glee as a chance to show that americans really don' t know anything about wine. the guardian gloated that gallo had been duped into buying 18 million bottles of plonk thinking it was the “intoxicating red feted with such style in the oscar - winning 2004 wine comedy' sideways.' ” (that would be news to santa barbara pinot producers .) the paper sneered at the unsuspecting “californian wine buff” sniffing his glass of plonk for hints of “dark fruit aromas” and “flavors of black cherry and plum. ”
the london times even took a swipe at me. after noting that producers in the languedoc had improved quality and “engaged in clever export marketing, ” it quoted the washington post' s “wine critic” as writing that “the languedoc and roussillon have shown tremendous improvement in quality over the past decade, and they remain a source of high - value wine at reasonable prices. ”
accurately quoted from my sept. 16, 2009, column. but the paper didn' t mention that in the column i also discussed the fraud investigation, then in its early stages, or that i cited the influential french wine magazine, la revue des vins de france, as touting the region' s success. never mind that my recommendations that week were from small quality - driven wineries in sub - appellations of the region, with nothing labeled “south of france. ” nor did the brit press mention that british wine writer jancis robinson, columnist for the financial times, has lavished praise on some of the region' s better wineries .
maybe we americans deserve a little bit of ribbing, though. after all, we did buy a lot of red bicyclette .
all good since there wasn' t an issue with the' healthiness' of the wine. but, is there good quality control on imported wine to make sure we' re not being poisoned ?
here' s to two - buck chuck. i always thought it was so amusing whenever someone ordered pinot noir. not to being dismissive of the varietal, but most of these people were doing it because they saw sideways. i say we ship a bunch of schlitz labeled as bud and send it over to french. that will show them .
e & j; gallo has failed to say what steps they have taken to ensure that the rest of their import portfolio is true to the varietal listed on the label. companies this big put huge pressures on their supply chain and then tend adopt a position that they are not responsible when a supplier cheats. in this case even though the family' s sonoma winemaker, gina gallo, has made pinot noir since 1991 and should know what it tastes like .
anyone who knows anything about languedoc wines should have been highly suspicious of a pinot noir from that region. those grapes are simply rarely grown there .
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a dozen french winemakers and traders have been found guilty of a massive scam to sell 18 million bottles of fake pinot noir to a leading us buyer .
the judge in carcassonne, south - west france, said the producers and traders had severely damaged the reputation of the languedoc region .
the 12 more than doubled profits passing off the wine to e and j gallo under its red bicyclette brand .
the court ruled the 12 had deliberately and repeatedly mislabelled the wine as one of the more expensive varieties of grape in order to get a better price from e and j gallo .
the red bicyclette pinot noir single grape wine is hugely popular in the united states .
they found the amount of pinot noir being sold to gallo was far more than the region produced .
the judge handed out suspended jail sentences ranging from one month to six months for the most prominent wine trader and ordered all the defendants to pay fines .
the judge said :
the scale of the fraud caused severe damage for the wines of the languedoc for which the united states is an important outlet .
a lawyer for three other defendants argued his clients had delivered a wine that had pinot noir characteristics .
e and j gallo said it was no longer selling any of the wine to its customers .
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the question now is whether gallo somehow knew that what was portrayed as industrial - grade pinot was nothing of the sort. the modesto wine giant has said it is
deeply disappointed
in its supplier, and when asked about checking the wine for pinot purity, a gallo spokesperson said ,
there is no way to chemically test wine to establish its varietal composition with certainty .
at least one other big wine company found itself entangled. constellation brands bought wine from the same supplier. it says some wine was
tested internally ,
and some tested independently, which doesn' t quite mesh with gallo' s assertion about verifying the putative pinot .
the outcry has been enough to get the feds involved, with the alcohol and tobacco tax and trade bureau launching a probe into label violations .
it depends upon what they knew and when they knew it ,
says ttb spokesman art resnick. and of course, there' s also a class - action lawsuit .
wine people don' t usually get such high drama, which is why this mess will probably take the trophy for schadenfreude of the year: american wine giant gets duped by the french. the freedom - fry cooks are heating their oil .
gallo, being the biggest of targets, has taken a lot of flak: how could they not know? didn' t anyone taste it? indeed, it' s possible no one tasted the wine in more than a cursory way. or it might have been a vinous case of
don' t ask, don' t tell .
welcome to the underbelly of the global wine market; cheap wine may not have the quandaries of cheap beef, but still requires a lot of legerdemain. and if any grape would expose the system' s shortfalls, it would be pinot. even when treated with care, it' s an uneven performer .
in the post -
sideways
world, the real story of modern pinot is found on any supermarket wine shelf. the fine print on bottles of $ 8 or $ 12 pinot reveals a self - contained tale of globalization. the labels may scream california - beringer, meridian, bv coastal, pepperwood grove - but the small print tells a different story: vin de pays de l' herault (france), provincia di pavia (italy), valle central (chile) .
perhaps no one called foul on the faux pinot because plenty of real, cheap pinot doesn' t have much pinot character. to prove this point, i went out and bought several such wines under $ 10. of the lot, only the beringer - also sourced from the languedoc - channeled pinot in a simple, table - beverage way. mostly, i found lots of hollow, tinny flavors. merlot would have been an improvement .
pinot partisans have been growing irate that their heartbreak grape is being ruined by the masses. it is an affirmation of every pinotphile' s conspiracy theory: that our beloved grape has been defiled by large - scale industrial winemaking .
just one problem: for all the hand - wringing about the french pumping us with fake pinot, the same adulteration has been at work on these shores for years - all of it perfectly legal. the road to cheap pinot is paved with more robust grapes; many inexpensive pinot noirs contain merlot, syrah, petite sirah and even chardonnay. labeling laws make it all perfectly legal .
so who' s to blame? we all are. the wine industry didn' t wake up one day and decide to make one of the most notoriously difficult grapes into a mass product. it responded to a huge demand .
you could argue that big wineries have been misleading novice drinkers into a false view of what pinot should be. but an alternative argument is we either accept that some wines just can' t be made on the cheap, or we drink the wine we deserve .
if we' re that worried about merlot being blended into cheap pinot, there' s an easy solution: stop drinking cheap pinot .
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thank you very much for this beautiful article, we are delighted to read it. excellent blanquette tasting !
products from a great local winery. the sparkling wines are of good value, service is friendly, we bought 3 bottles .
my friend took me here, as he was already familiar with the local area and wanted to take me to the place where his favourite wine comes from. it' s now easily my favourite too. the museum was interesting, with lots of history and information about ...
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stopped by for a tasting of the famous blanquette de limoux. though it was off - season, the staff let us into the free museum (apologising for the lack of heat). interesting and informative displays. nice map of the four local terroirs, complemented by jars of soil ...
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just back from a flying visit here and had to share what fabulous service we had from simone. not only was she knowledgeable about the wines, but she was super helpful telling us of places to eat in limoux and in the smaller town of ...
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we popped in here before lunch whilst exploring limoux. the museum was free and well laid out with plenty of information about the production of sparkling wine in general and information more specific to the area. we then had a taste of some of the ...
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we were disappointed that they had stopped the tour apparently due to
health and safety
reasons. thought this only applied to gb! . museum quite interesting but the video had obviously been produced for marketing purposes. views of the barrels in the caves quite impressive .
dear sir, we are providing a tour for our visitors to discover how our wine and especially our sparkling wine is made. this tour is absolutely the same for any customers whatever the customers nationality. moreover, it would be absolutely dangerous to show some technical ...
this museum is free to the public. it is interesting to see the scale of production in this area. we did some wine tasting of the different blanquettes after - which are very good - and not too expensive .
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traditional method the traditional method gives us the blanquette and crémant de limoux, the ideal partner for all lovers of bubbles .
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limoux is best known for its sparkling wine, blanquette de limoux. this is reputed to be the oldest sparkling wine in france and dates back to 1531 when benedictine monks from saint hilaire abbey discovered that the wine they had laid down had fermented and formed bubbles. this was the beginning of limoux’s bubbly - the blanquette de limoux which was the first aoc to be created in the languedoc area. the process (the locals say) was stolen by dom perignon who went on to create ‘champagne‘. however the limoux sparkling wine is a very high quality champagne substitute and crémant, which was developed in 1990, has a top class reputation. now a prestigious event attracting buyers from all over the world, “toques & clochers” puts up for auction the most promising barrels of aoc limoux. a share of the proceeds are then used to finance the renovation of bell towers in surrounding villages. every year the auction is hosted by one of france’s great chefs popularly referred to as a “toques”, the traditional white chef’s hat... .
history tells us that blanquette de limoux, the world' s first sparkling wine, dates as far back as 1531. at the time, the monks of the benedictine abbey of saint - hilaire, near limoux, were producing a somewhat unusual white wine in their cellars. inside its glass flask, with a cork top - very rare for wines at this time - it acquired a natural sparkle. this was the forefather of the brut which is tasted today at the world' s most prestigious tables. since they first started cultivating vines, the growers of limoux have aimed at maintaining the originality of the blanquette de limoux growth and developing its quality. the region' s surrounding hills protect it from the extremes of the mediterranean and atlantic climates, with the area enjoying a microclimate particularly suitable for making quality white wine. the vines classified in the appellation are always planted at the top of southern - facing slopes, giving the best exposure. the soil here is shallow and sparse, full of chalk and stone... .
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situated in the foothills of the pyrenees and surrounded by its vineyards, domaine gayda is a new destination in the languedoc, 25km south west of carcassonne, in the village of brugairolles. nestled in the vines, our new “paillotes” offer a unique barbecue dining experience whilst the restaurant, incorporated in the winery building, also makes for an exceptional environment in which to discover our food and wines. enjoy the spectacular views and the modern french cuisine prepared with the passion and creativity of our chef pascal ledroit, an inspiring new face of food and wine for the region... .
located in limoux, the hotel & restaurant moderne et pigeon greets you at the heart of the cathares castles. 11 guest rooms with all mod cons, a traditional restaurant for the whole family where adults and children can both enjoy. a variety of sets menus are available for you to choose from: tasting menu; gourmet menu or sweet - tooth menu. the hotel moderne et pigeon is a former covent dating from 1501. first it was a covent, then it became a boutique hotel and a bank at the beginning of the 20th century. the hotel is decorated with centuries old stained glasses and frescoes. you will enjoy the charm of a fine dining restaurant and a luxury hotel. we look forward to greeting you soon ...
hotel - restaurant auberge de la corneilla located in cournanel (aude) near limoux, and twenty five kilometers from the city of carcassonne welcomes you in the cathar country in a warm and friendly atmosphere with two large rooms and a shaded terrace at the edge of the river. very nice in the summer for its rural setting... during holidays we offer special menus (christmas, valentine easter, mother' s day, etc ...) two to three times per year at the change of season we change the map and menu with seasonal ingredients. in the weekend we offer in addition to the normal map a menu at 26 € with drinks (wine and coffee) included ...
hotel limoux located at the entrance of limoux (drive from carcassonne), hotel limoux offers 12 quiet rooms, comfortable and functional (from 1 to 4 people). each with a private entrance, you have direct access to the patio of the hotel. carnaval in limoux ,
los fecos
. this typical village fête is held in late summer when the nights are still warm, and the crops and grapes have been harvested. but this annual fête in limoux, is different in almost every respect. for a start it lasts not three days, but over two months; and not in summer but mid winter. it is the earliest and longest fête on the french calendar, starting in january and continuing until two weeks before easter sunday ...
it is with great pleasure that our brasserie near carcassonne will let discover the specialties of the region on your plate. friendliness, good humor and regional cuisine: the recipe of this etablissement is also café and guesthouse in operation for over 100 years. . a café - brasserie near carcassonne, founded more than 100 years ago, tivoli has crossed the times with the times. this café - brasserie near carcassonne was taken completely renovated in 2004 by jean - marc guiraud. former manager of a bar atmosphere
the barjo
, this passionate rugby player is a heavy hitter now to offers of new services including the side of the theme bar. the catering, a family story that lasts for 3 generations in guiraud !
a creative, respectful cooking of the seasons and the products of the soil. a comfortable place for a very nice meal waits for you there. shop and restaurant la maison de la blanquette, the house of blanquette. town of limoux. limoux. languedoc. the wine shop and tasting room. the set menus in this restaurant offer local dishes to accompany the famous blanquette de limoux and other local wines. epicurean tastes throughout - well balanced food and an excellent wine list ...
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the pinot noir passing - off controversy arose in 2010 within the wine industry over the passing - off by french distributors of merlot and syrah wine as pinot noir in the united states. the controversy involved the mislabeling of wines from vintners in southern france which were falsely sold to american distributors e & j gallo winery as pinot noir. the mislabeling resulted in a french court convicting twelve people for fraud .
pinot noir wine is considered particularly difficult to make well. american law requires that wine sold as being from a single varietal must be at least 75% composed of the grape in question, and within the european union, the requirement is a minimum of 85% . accordingly, many american winemakers add less expensive but more robust merlot and syrah to improve the mainstream appeal of inexpensive pinot noir. california wine brands often sell pinot noir from france, italy, chile, and germany, because it is less expensive to produce there than locally. as a result of the blending and importation practices, wine sold as pinot noir often does not have the characteristic taste of the grape, and can easily be confused by consumers and experts for other varietals .
the scheme was discovered during an audit of ducasse wine merchants. french investigators were suspicious that the firm was buying pinot noir wine at 40% less than the going rate, in quantities that exceeded the historical production level of the region .
the scandal, described as the largest in french winemaking in recent years, was a public relations
nightmare
that hurt the credibility of the red bicyclette brand, and of french wine production generally, at least in the united states. pinot noir had gained some recognition and popularity among american consumers, in large part due to a conceit in the 2004 independent film sideways that it was superior to merlot wine. as a result, consumers had been willing to pay more for the supposedly superior grape. the british press used the occasion to scoff at american consumers for their supposed lack of sophistication in wine. in march, 2010, a wine writer for the san francisco chronicle coined the name
pinotgate
to describe the scandal .
gallo denied any prior knowledge of the fraud and was not accused of complicity. it has been accused by some of not sufficiently overseeing the quality and authenticity of wine purchased from suppliers. a class - action lawsuit was filed against gallo in connection with selling the mislabeled bottles .
nobody was hurt by the austrian tampering but the same can’t be said of a similar, but lethal, scandal which came to light in italy in 1986. at least twenty three people died when they drank odore barbera, a wine from the north of italy dubbed ‘poison plonk’ by time magazine, which was contaminated with methyl alcohol (another ingredient of antifreeze !) .
the austrians and italians are not alone in adulterating wine. there is a wine spread practice of ‘watering down’ wine, know as jesus units, generally to bring down the alcohol level. it’s also not unheard of to find that an ‘exclusive’ wine is in fact not 100% the real mccoy but has been blended with other less prestigious wines. burgundy wines for example have been analysed to reveal they have been blended with less expensive red wines; in 2006 vins georges duboeuf was found guilty of just that, blending in lower grade wine with much better - quality crus and labelling it cru beaujolais .
scandals aren’t confined to the old world, it seems everyone is in on the game. there have been reported cases in asia of lafit or petrus which turned out to be wine from gaochang or shandong province. but probably the biggest ‘fake’ scandal in asia was between 2007 - 2010 when 400, 000 bottles of mont tauch fitou aoc were imported, supposedly from france. suspicions were raised by the mont tauch team in asia when they heard reports of it being sold at an inexplicably low price – it turned out to be south american bulk wine in very well faked packaging !
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a french court found 12 executives guilty of selling the equivalent of 18 million bottles of cheaper wine as pinot noir. the buyer was california’s e & j gallo for their red bicyclette brand, which sells for about $ 9 a bottle .
afp reports that generic red wines fetched 45 euros (about $ 62) per one hundred liters while the premium pinot noir fetched 97 euros. one of the firms involved had been paying 58 euros for the wines it sold to gallo. the accused made seven million euros ($ 9. 5 million) in the scheme .
gallo issued a statement saying that they were “deeply disappointed” to learn of the fraud at one of their suppliers. the statement continued: “we believe that the only french pinot noir that was potentially misrepresented to us would have been the 2006 vintage and prior. ” they also added that there was no health risk and that they would be withdrawing the wine from the market.
sieur d'arques is a wine producer cooperative located in limoux in the languedoc-roussillon area of france . it produces the red bicyclette brand of wine , marketed in the united states by e & j gallo winery . in 2012 , pierre mirc retired as chairman of sieur d'arques . current executives include maurice lautard , chairman ; laurent lechat , general manager ; guilhem marty , technical director . 
sieur d'arques is a wine producer cooperative located in limoux in the languedoc-roussillon area of france. it produces the red bicyclette brand of wine, marketed in the united states by e & j gallo winery. in 2012, pierre mirc retired as chairman of sieur d'arques. current executives include maurice lautard, chairman; laurent lechat, general manager; guilhem marty, technical director.
sieur d'arques is a wine producer cooperative located in limoux in the languedoc-roussillon area of france. it produces the red bicyclette brand of wine, marketed in the united states by e & j gallo winery. in 2012, pierre mirc retired as chairman of sieur d'arques. current executives include maurice lautard, chairman; laurent lechat, general manager; guilhem marty, technical director.