Talk:Gros Verdot

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A fact from Gros Verdot appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 2 April 2013 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that while plantings of Gros Verdot have been banned in Bordeaux, the grape can still be used to make Bordeaux-style Meritage wines outside of France?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2013/April. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Gros Verdot.

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Yes, but why???[edit]

The article is quite clear on the fact that this grape was banned from being produced in Bordeaux. I read the entire article twice looking for a reason why, but to no avail. Surely that information is present in the offline sources cited tons of times on the article page? Seems kind of relevant. Thanks, ☯.Zen Swashbuckler.☠ 14:39, 2 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

It's not stated directly (and so I didn't want to stray into WP:OR territory) but in sources like Jancis Robinson it was implied that the grape simply didn't make good enough wine for the Bordelais. Agne ^Cheese/^Wine 15:15, 2 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for responding (and speedily). Is there a quote where that implication is given succinctly? I would have guessed the OR/SYNTH component would have stemmed from the rootstock incompatibility described under #Viticulture and cited to the Lanigan & Edwards pdf. Alas that this has no entry on fr-WP! ☯.Zen Swashbuckler.☠ 16:28, 2 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The quote from Wine Grapes

In France, Gros Verdot has been banned from plantings in the Gironde [Bordeaux wine region] since 1946 (Lafforgue 1947) and is not included in the official French register of varieties, even though it was an important variety in the Queyries vineyard of nineteenth-century Bordeaux (Bordenave et al. 2007), what is now the Bastide area of the city. It lacks the interest and concentration of its namesake Petit Verdot and has almost disappeared.

I tried hunting down the citation in the text which in the bibliography is listed as Lafforgue, G, 1947, Le vignoble girondin, Louis Larmat, Paris but with no real luck. Agne ^Cheese/^Wine 18:49, 2 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]