bicépage
English translation: bi(-)varietal
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| 19:08 Jan 10, 2006 |
| French to English translations [PRO] Wine / Oenology / Viticulture / wine varieties | |||||||
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| 3 | two/double grape variety |
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| 3 | bivarietal [NFG] |
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| 3 | two variety |
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| bicépage two/double grape variety Explanation: Hi Nicky, this is a new term in the French language. It is not even in the most up to date dictionaries as far as I can find. Must be designer wine !! -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 5 hrs 22 mins (2006-01-11 00:31:00 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- wine varietals or blended wines: http://www.wines.com/varietals.html |
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| bicépage bivarietal [NFG] Explanation: I just wanted to use an answer to explain a bit further, as there appears to be some confusion here. In French wines, they have traditionally often been made from one or more grape varieties, the term 'blended' is not much bandied around, and they do so like to stick to their revered ideas of region / terroir / AOC etc. So there has been a lot of discussion around the introduction here of 'anonymous' varietal wines (which we are already very used to in England), where the grape variety figures as the name of the wine on the label, thus disguising the fact that it may be from a less-favoured region --- in some ways, I feel sure this has been a marketing ploy by the regions in recession to try and break the stranglehold of the greats like Bordeaux! However, it can also be argued that to the average person-in-the-street consumer, this is often a more helpful way of going about things, as one is arguably more likely to notice the family characteristics of a particular grape variety than most of the 'merely' geographical differentiations --- for example, in the most simplistic terms, the Muscat grape is highly distinctive, regardless of where it is grown! These new bivarietal (and I still hate that term!) wines are an attempt to cash in on this marketing opportunity, whilst retaining some of the advantages that judicious blending can have in mitigating some of the less desirable features of certain grape varieties used alone. So it's quite important to see 'bivarietal' as a positive marketing kind of term (even when spat angrily past a soggy Gauloise), rather than the weaker 'blended', which often seems to carry some kind of negative connotation, no doubt cf. whisky etc. |
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| bicépage comments Explanation: Just to get a little complicated ... Most French wines ARE blended, though they are not advertised as such. They go under their "terroir" title, the official descriptions of which define the blending limits. Knowing that, "blended" COULD take on a special meaning, referring to wines that are blended but not associated with a particular region. Even so, I think it would be important to specify that these are a blend of two varieties, since chances are someone will be marketing "tricépage" somewhere down the road! |
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| bicépage two variety Explanation: I don't like bivarietal, which a quick search using Google UK shows to be hardly used at all. Blend seems to be what this really refers to but if you want to be precise about it you must use two variety. I found this very good article on the subject, which may help http://observer.guardian.co.uk/foodmonthly/story/0,9950,1013... |
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