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Yes, but why???
editThe 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, ☯.ZenSwashbuckler.☠ 14:39, 2 April 2013 (UTC)
- 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. AgneCheese/Wine 15:15, 2 April 2013 (UTC)
- 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! ☯.ZenSwashbuckler.☠ 16:28, 2 April 2013 (UTC)
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. AgneCheese/Wine 18:49, 2 April 2013 (UTC)