[Vocabulary] cote du rhone

[maiabulela]

A husband wanted to surprise his wife by buying here a nice bottle of wine. He goes to the store and he knows his wife like "cotes du rhone" but he wanted to get her somthing new this time. The man in the store says to him:

"COTES DU RHONES ARE PREDOMINATELY THE GRENACHE GRAPE.


SO FROM FRANCE, WE HAVE A GIGONDAS, WHICH IS FROM THE COTES du RHONE, BUT IT'S A SINGLE-VILLAGE TOWN, WHICH IS A FAR HIGHER-QUALITY WINE."

Now I got that "cotes du rhones" is the name of a rigion and a name of the wine. but I can't get what he means by "it's a single village town which is far higher quality"!!!

(this is totally weird as if for example if it's from a two-village town it would be less quality! I can't get that at all)

Thanks.

 

[emsr2d2]

A husband wanted to surprise his wife by buying here a nice bottle of wine. He goes to the store and he knows his wife like "cotes du rhone" but he wanted to get her somthing new this time. The man in the store says to him:

"COTES DU RHONES ARE PREDOMINATELY THE GRENACHE GRAPE.


SO FROM FRANCE, WE HAVE A GIGONDAS, WHICH IS FROM THE COTES du RHONE, BUT IT'S A SINGLE-VILLAGE TOWN, WHICH IS A FAR HIGHER-QUALITY WINE."

Now I got that "cotes du rhones" is the name of a rigion and a name of the wine. but I can't get what he means by "it's a single village town which is far higher quality"!!!

(this is totally weird as if for example if it's from a two-village town it would be less quality! I can't get that at all)

Thanks.

I'm sure there will be someone who knows more about wine, but my only guess is that perhaps if they know for sure that all the grapes come from that one single village, maybe that makes it a higher quality wine. If a wine is made from a mixture of grapes from different vineyards even if they're from different villages within the same small region, perhaps that makes it lower quality.

But I'm guessing!

 

[bhaisahab]

A husband wanted to surprise his wife by buying here a nice bottle of wine. He goes to the store and he knows his wife like "cotes du rhone" but he wanted to get her somthing new this time. The man in the store says to him:

"COTES DU RHONES ARE PREDOMINATELY THE GRENACHE GRAPE.


SO FROM FRANCE, WE HAVE A GIGONDAS, WHICH IS FROM THE COTES du RHONE, BUT IT'S A SINGLE-VILLAGE TOWN, WHICH IS A FAR HIGHER-QUALITY WINE."

Now I got that "cotes du rhones" is the name of a rigion and a name of the wine. but I can't get what he means by "it's a single village town which is far higher quality"!!!

(this is totally weird as if for example if it's from a two-village town it would be less quality! I can't get that at all)

Thanks.

Where did you find this text?

 

[maiabulela]

BareFoot Contessa cookin program!!

 

[bhaisahab]

BareFoot Contessa cookin program!!

I'm not familiar with the programme. I find "single-village town" very strange, I thought perhaps it should be "vintage" rather than "village" but even then it wouldn't make much sense.

 

[emsr2d2]

I'm not familiar with the programme. I find "single-village town" very strange, I thought perhaps it should be "vintage" rather than "village" but even then it wouldn't make much sense.

It is a rather odd quote. I also don't see how something can be a "single village town". A place is either a village or it's a town! I agree that "single vintage" would at least make sense when talking about wine, but "single vintage town"?

 

[Rover_KE]

If a wine is made from a mixture of grapes from different vineyards even if they're from different villages within the same small region, perhaps that makes it lower quality.

But I'm guessing!

Your guess is spot-on, ems (can I call you ems for short?).


I can't think of anything that sounds like town, but a single-village growth would make perfect sense.

Wines produced from a named village - or even a single vineyard - are usually superior to those bearing the regional appellation.

For example, Fleurie, from the village of that name, is a classy example of Beaujolais.

What happens is that individual vintners, in years when their own wine is of insufficient quantity or quality to be bottled and sold under its own label, send their wine to the local co-operative to be blended with that of other growers and sold under the regional name.

Rover

 

[maiabulela]

I really don't understand anything! I appreciate u efforts, though.

 

[maiabulela]

emsr2d2 understood but i haven't yet!

 

[Raymott]

I really don't understand anything! I appreciate u efforts, though.

It's simple. It's not proper English. No one else understands it either.

 

[maiabulela]

I need to translate it. can it be rephrased?

 

[Raymott]

I need to translate it. can it be rephrased?

No. In general, if something cannot be understood, it cannot be rephrased to make it mean what it's supposed to, because nobody knows what it's supposed to mean.
In cases like this, you need to go to the source and obtain a correct quote or paraphrase from the original author.

 

[maiabulela]

Your guess is spot-on, ems (can I call you ems for short?).


I can't think of anything that sounds like town, but a single-village growth would make perfect sense.

Wines produced from a named village - or even a single vineyard - are usually superior to those bearing the regional appellation.

For example, Fleurie, from the village of that name, is a classy example of Beaujolais.

What happens is that individual vintners, in years when their own wine is of insufficient quantity or quality to be bottled and sold under its own label, send their wine to the local co-operative to be blended with that of other growers and sold under the regional name.

Rover

make it simpler, please.

So Gigondas is a village in the town of Cote du Rhone? Or what??

 

[bhaisahab]

make it simpler, please.

So Gigondas is a village in the town of Cote du Rhone? Or what??

Gigondas is a village in the department of Vaucluse, in the wine growing region called Cotes du Rhone, which is in the valley of the river Rhone in south eastern France.

 

[Rover_KE]

I need to translate it. can it be rephrased?

It's clearly a mistake.

I suggest you translate it as ...it's from a single village... or ...it's a bottle from a single village...

Rover

 

[maiabulela]

It's clearly a mistake.

I suggest you translate it as ...it's from a single village... or ...it's a bottle from a single village...

Rover

Ok. Could it be a bottle from more than one village? Any type of wine is obviously from a certain single village.

 

[emsr2d2]

Ok. Could it be a bottle from more than one village? Any type of wine is obviously from a certain single village.

Well, no, as the others have stated, a wine isn't necessarily from a certain single village. Grapes from many different villages and vineyards can be mixed together to make wine. It may be bottled in one village but that doesn't mean the grapes all came from the same place.