Comments on: a picturesque grouping of persons or objects; a striking scene http://www.baldingangrily.com/2007/04/06/a-picturesque-grouping-of-persons-or-objects-a-striking-scene/ not gracefully Sat, 22 Nov 2008 10:53:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1 By: saltine http://www.baldingangrily.com/2007/04/06/a-picturesque-grouping-of-persons-or-objects-a-striking-scene/#comment-677 saltine Mon, 16 Apr 2007 23:17:03 +0000 http://www.baldingangrily.com/2007/04/06/a-picturesque-grouping-of-persons-or-objects-a-striking-scene/#comment-677 Since no one has replied to your question of whether Chianti is a wine or a region, I will. The orange-haired waitress replied to the question that it is a region and she is right, Alex. The reason she presented the wine as "Chianti style" is that the wine had the character of a wine from the Chianti region, but was not in fact from the Chianti region. Therefore, she could not say, "It's Chianti." It's like Burgundy or Champagne; if it's in the style but not of the region, it has to be renamed. In Australia and the US we call wine with the character of champagne "sparkling wine" because the appellation "champagne" is off-limits. Appellation wines are wines from a region which produces wines that are exactly alike because the growing conditions over the region are exactly alike, hence, Chianti is Chianti because of the region, not the producer. I'm a wine snob, so shoot me. Since no one has replied to your question of whether Chianti is a wine or a region, I will. The orange-haired waitress replied to the question that it is a region and she is right, Alex. The reason she presented the wine as “Chianti style” is that the wine had the character of a wine from the Chianti region, but was not in fact from the Chianti region. Therefore, she could not say, “It’s Chianti.” It’s like Burgundy or Champagne; if it’s in the style but not of the region, it has to be renamed. In Australia and the US we call wine with the character of champagne “sparkling wine” because the appellation “champagne” is off-limits. Appellation wines are wines from a region which produces wines that are exactly alike because the growing conditions over the region are exactly alike, hence, Chianti is Chianti because of the region, not the producer.

I’m a wine snob, so shoot me.

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