451: The Aligoté Thread
I'll Drink to That! Wine Talk
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Heronymus - A Time of Great Change
In the early 15 hundred two heronymus bachs roamed the earth. One was a dutch painter whose trippy paintings still captivate us to day. The other one was a german botanist who recorded and organized plants. In his book gritebuch, about plants, he mentions what we think is a reference to gue blanc. Can you guess the name of the new grape variety? Pino noir and got med after chardinet. And there we have one etymological theory about where aligote got its name.
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