Talk:Douce noir

Food and drink: Wine B‑class Low‑importance

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Food and drink, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of food and drink related articles on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Food and drinkWikipedia:WikiProject Food and drinkTemplate:WikiProject Food and drinkFood and drink articles

B

This article has been rated as B-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.

Low

This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Related taskforces:
/
	This article is within the scope of Wines task force, a project which is currently considered to be inactive.

WikiProject Wine open tasks:

Here are some tasks you can do for WikiProject Wine:

Article request: Sebastiani family, Great Wine Capitals of the World.

Expand: any of the ~700 wine stubs, particularly the region and "miscellaneous" ones, Western Australian wine

Improve: Canadian wine, Greek wine, Vitis vinifera, wine serving temperature, Western Australian wine, other Start class articles

Articles to GA: Wine, Australian wine, Bordeaux wine, Burgundy wine, California wine, Champagne (wine), Chianti, Dessert wine, French wine, German wine, Grenache, Italian wine, Merlot, Pinot gris, Pinot noir, Rioja (wine), Spanish wine, Sparkling wine, Syrah, Tempranillo, Winemaking

Articles to FA: Cabernet Sauvignon, Riesling, Sauvignon blanc

Cleanup: Cleanup lists of wine-related articles: all articles and articles by category.

Unreferenced biographies of living persons

Copyedit: Aligoté, Cabernet franc, Malbec, Robert M. Parker, Jr., Pinot blanc, Rioja (wine)

Photo request: Just about all of them! Any pictures of wine regions, grape varieties or wine would be useful. In particular we need wine region maps that can be licensed for Wikipedia.

Collaboration: Operation stub-killer, Nominations for top level importance

Infobox: Template:Infobox grape variety, Template:Infobox winery

Other: Comment on the grape article template and on the grape infobox. Add to the Wikiquote page for wine: Wikiquote wine

view • edit • discuss • history • watch

A fact from Douce noir appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 30 April 2013 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Douce noir, which is known as Charbono in California and Bonarda in Argentina, has been called both a "cult wine" and "the Rodney Dangerfield of wine"?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2013/April. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Douce noir.

Wikipedia

Cult wine and Rodney Dangerfield of wine

The source is behind a paywall at Appellation America that is sometimes not visible on the Google search preview but since I have a subscription I can provide access to the article but I will also put the full quote here from the article. The "cult wine" quip is in Wine Business Monthly which is, currently, not behind a paywall should be freely accessible. Agne ^Cheese/^Wine 17:00, 27 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

“

“(But) when we bought the property, we thought it would be fun to do something different. … Little did I know there is a pecking order in the Napa Valley,” referring again to the virtual monoculture within a monoculture that is Cabernet Sauvignon. “(But) I found out in a short time, Charbono was the Rodney Dangerfield of wine.

”

Hi, I don't know how to format text here, but I don't think the quote about Rodney Dangerfield should be attributed to Jim Summers. In the linked article, it only appears in the caption of a photo without attribution. The simile, whether valid or not, is probably due to the author of the article. I'm also not sure it qualifies as a "cult wine." My understanding of "cult wine" is one that rich douchebags will pay hundreds or even thousands of dollars to obtain. Yet I have recently purchased a $60 "mystery case" from a high-end wine shop, which contained a 2002 vintage Summers estate bottled Charbono. Maybe this is the wine equivalent of discovering an unopened pack of first edition Magic cards in the gutter and finding a Black Lotus inside, but I doubt it. It's still a good wine though. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1702:9D0:48E0:1833:E42:BF15:9925 (talk) 02:34, 26 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]