Talk:Sauternes (wine)

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Isn't Sauternes in the Graves? --Fire Star 火星 16:21, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

It is, locations mentioned and linked. --Fire Star 火星 04:00, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

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This article was automatically assessed because at least one article was rated and this bot brought all the other ratings up to at least that level. BetacommandBot 08:04, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

I've cleaned this of many little vulgarisms, confusions of agreement in number and other struggles with grammar, and some intrusive mannerisms like with + gerund, but some of the more personal "appreciations" would be better if expressed from the point-of-view of quotes from published sources. Aside from jargon that needs disambiguating phrases to be intelligible to the average reader (chaptalization etc) it's shaping up as quite a well-rounded article. --Wetman (talk) 03:41, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the help with clean up. :) The only major disagreement is with the characterization of chaptalization as jargon. It is the proper name of a distinct process, much like harvesting and fermentation, and it is used in the same way. The article already includes the context of what the process does in making Sauternes (to increase alcohol and body in poor vintages) and obviously the wiki-link leads to more indepth discussion. I can see more of a case for saying that "drink well" is jargon but after looking at how several sources use the phrase, it is essentially self contain. To say something is "drinking well" is to say that it is (well) drinking well as oppose to drinking bad. While I will continue to ponder alternatives (and see some additional input), the only alternative phrasing I could think of is to be more pedantic and saying that it is "drinking good". But that doesn't quite flow. :) Agne^Cheese/^Wine 07:08, 23 January 2008 (UTC)