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You probably don't care for barnstars - at least I haven't found any. Nevertheless I would like to offer you this for your long-term, unswerving dedication to wine on Wikipedia. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 04:09, 12 May 2013 (UTC) |
Heh, barnstars are fine so thank you :) I don't seek/collect them but it is nice to know your work is appreciated. And hey! It's good to see you're still hanging around these parts. Hope things are well in your neck of the woods. AgneCheese/Wine 04:19, 12 May 2013 (UTC)
- Things are fine here in Thailand but sadly no wine, and my vineyards are fine in France :) Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk)
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Thank you for quality articles for project Wine, such as Rioja and Ancient Greece and wine, mentioning the emergence from barbarism, and for quoting "wet my mind and say something clever" - you are an awesome Wikipedian!
Why thank you! AgneCheese/Wine 07:46, 15 May 2013 (UTC)
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I just want to thank you, belatedly, for your help in getting For sale: baby shoes, never worn ready for its DYK. And ultimately approving the hook. Daniel Case (talk) 02:19, 23 May 2013 (UTC)
- Oh no problem. It was a fun article to review. :) AgneCheese/Wine 03:32, 23 May 2013 (UTC)
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- Thank you! It was a fun article to work on :) AgneCheese/Wine 11:40, 25 May 2013 (UTC)
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Excellent work! I was eyeing up Linda Bisson earlier but couldn't find many sources with "extensive" information. Can you find some links? I also started Valentin Blattner which you might add to. Hey I was wondering if you'd be interested in making a list of notable missing wines. I think we should have more articles on actual wines on here rather than just the grape varieties or companies..♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 18:33, 3 June 2013 (UTC)
- Well there are very few singular wines that are notable apart from the wineries (or wine regions) that produce them (Dom Perignon (wine), Cristal (wine), Constantia (wine), etc) and these usually already have articles on them. Now if you wanted a list of notable missing winery articles, we can definitely come up with that.
- As for sources Able Grape is a search engine tailored to reliable wine sources that I use often. Searching for Linda Bisson comes up with several sources that have small tidbits about her research and impact on the industry but unfortunately outside of her UC-Davis bio page, I don't see any profile pieces with biographical details apart from her research. There are also lots of small mentioning in mainstream papers like the LA Times about her role in investigating the UC Davis pepper-spray incident. AgneCheese/Wine 18:56, 3 June 2013 (UTC)
- I started coming up with a list of notable wineries that don't yet articles at User:Agne27/Missing winery articles. It's pretty extensive and there are a lot of regions to add to. I don't have time to finish it soon but will try to come back to it and fill in more regions when I get a chance. AgneCheese/Wine 21:39, 3 June 2013 (UTC)
- Also, great start on the Valentin Blattner article. I added a list of some of the other grape varieties he created. As I get to those grape articles and come across more details about Blattner, I'll add that info to the article. AgneCheese/Wine 22:13, 3 June 2013 (UTC)
- I started coming up with a list of notable wineries that don't yet articles at User:Agne27/Missing winery articles. It's pretty extensive and there are a lot of regions to add to. I don't have time to finish it soon but will try to come back to it and fill in more regions when I get a chance. AgneCheese/Wine 21:39, 3 June 2013 (UTC)
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The thing that generates the human-readable names and descriptions is a small JSON data structure, loaded through an extension called TemplateData. I'm reaching out to you in the hopes that you'd be willing and able to put some time into adding TemplateData to high-profile templates. It's pretty easy to understand (heck, if I can write it, anyone can) and you can find a guide here, along with a list of prominent templates, although I suspect we can all hazard a guess as to high-profile templates that would benefit from this. Hopefully you're willing to give it a try; the more TemplateData sections get added, the better the interface can be. If you run into any problems, drop a note on the Feedback page.
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GA review
Hi, I've been looking for somebody to review Viktor Kosenko, still not nominated for GA, and found your wine cellar ! Though it seems you're quite busy there, I read your wiki stuff and your point of view of the Lead matches mine. I've called Colonel Henry, highly gifted User, but he's quite busy in real life right now. Just one question more please: Cabernet Sauvignon Gran Verano or Pinotage Stellenbosch ? Krenakarore TK 11:00, 17 July 2013 (UTC)
- Howdy, I haven't been part of the GA process for many years so I'm really not up to snuff on the current criteria and not sure when I would have time to complete your review. My apologies. As for your second question, I'm afraid that I have yet to find a Pinotage that I have truly enjoyed. I hear from other wine friends that the really good Pinotages are rarely exported out of South Africa and to truly enjoy the best the grape has to offer I need to order glass in Joburg or Cape Town with some local braai. But till then I would have to default to the Cabernet Sauvignon Gran Verano. AgneCheese/Wine 17:13, 18 July 2013 (UTC)
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Agne27, you write great articles on Hybrid grapes and wine making in North America (especially Vidal blanc) with great references that are hard to find. I use a lot of your references on fr.wikipedia to create and develop articles. Lavj3012 (talk) 14:34, 28 July 2013 (UTC) |
Why thank you! I'm glad they could be of help. AgneCheese/Wine 19:44, 1 August 2013 (UTC)
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Calibel Grape
Agne, Have you ever heard of a grape called Calibel? I cannot find any information on it, and one the wineries that I wrote an article on it mentions that they use it in one of their award-winning wines? Old York Cellars DavidinNJ (talk) 21:20, 8 October 2013 (UTC)
Champagne Krug article Updates
Hi Amber,
Hope you are doing well. I sent you an email about the new steps of Wikipedia Krug article, I don't know if you had time to check it. That’s why I am contacting you again.
As you know, I’m the person in charge of Krug Wikipedia project. I want to thank you for all your help in this project. In addition I would like to tell you that the sources pages of Champagne Krug’ Wikipedia English article are available. You can check them on the link below: https://www.krug.com/wiki Please uses this login: test and password: test to access to the information.
Furthermore, Krug want to change the photos of the article Champagne Krug article. We are checking some details about that but, I hope at the end of the week, we can deal with this issue.
In order to make some progress in this project, Krug want to publish the article and the logo as soon as possible. I would like to know if you can update this information.
I request you to confirm that you are able to do that.
Cheers,
Kind regards.
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Care to expand this? Sorry I've slumped, but I've slumped in most areas of wiki editing in recent months! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 15:34, 13 November 2013 (UTC)
- Sure I'll take a look. I've also been pretty intermittent in my wiki-editing though a "slump" for you is still above and beyond even my ferocious periods of editing! AgneCheese/Wine 20:12, 13 November 2013 (UTC)
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Pinot noir capitalization
Hello Agne- Saw your revert to my fix of over-capitalization in the Pinot noir article. You are incorrect about the term being a proper noun. But in modern-day America, at least, you are far from alone in capitalizing it. As I'm sure you know, the term is never capitalized in French. Many American publications capitalize many words they should not. Wikipedia is loaded with incorrectly capitalized words: While you have never seen a Blue Jay flying in your back yard, I'll wager you've seen a blue jay or two. Anyway, I've learned not to put too much effort into fixing the problem on wp, as it is the encyclopedia that anyone can edit. In a quick search, I found good blog post on this topic, "How Proper is your Pinot" that has a couple thoughtful comments as well. Eric talk 14:25, 21 November 2013 (UTC)
- I understand that there is dissent in this regard but as individual cultivars grape varieties are considered proper nouns. In the fields of enology and viticulture (particularly scientific but also in the vernacular of retail and consumers) it is exceedingly common to see grape varieties capitalized and not just by Americans. In fact, most American usage takes it clues from European writers and winemakers such as MichaelBroadbent, Jancis Robinson, Philippe Pacalet, Luigi Veronelli and even Pierre Galet, the French father of ampelography.
- But perhaps the most important reason is the need to be consistent and the convention, on Wikipedia at least, is for grape varieties to be capitalized. With over 700 grape articles following the standard convention of capitalization, it makes no sense for Pinot noir to be a one-off. AgneCheese/Wine 15:03, 22 November 2013 (UTC)
- I agree with your last statement, and I acknowledge with regret that much that is done on Wikipedia is done because that's the way it's been done on Wikipedia, and/or by many people in the world, whether supported by standard reference works or not. In our rule-by-consensus encyclopedia, editors hyphenate Douglas fir and poison ivy, and we have articles titled Headlight flashing and Death threat, so I try not to use wp as my primary basis for how things should be done here.
- It looks like that Galet book you point to, Grape Varieties, might be a translation of his Dictionnaire encyclopédique des cépages or Les grands cépages. Note that their descriptions (on those Amazon links and elsewhere) spell grape varieties in lower case, as is the norm in French. I'm guessing most American usage takes its cues from material translated into English. Thanks for the refs, by the way--I might try to get a copy of Galet's encyclopedia. Eric talk 16:58, 22 November 2013 (UTC)
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grape variety articles
I'd like to bring a few of the articles on grape varieties up to a GA or FA standard--mostly varieties I plan to grow on my property in the States (Dornfelder, Gruener Veltliner, etc.). What kind of outline for an article do you think would be a standard for what should be expected of a GA- or FA-class article? Also, as you know I've slowly been working on New Jersey wine...what else could be added or addressed at the article to bring it up to GA- or FA-class? Thanks in advance for your thoughts on these matters. --ColonelHenry (talk) 18:03, 23 November 2013 (UTC)
- Very cool. I always thought that grape articles would probably be the easiest articles to bring up to FA levels. Definitely keep me abreast of which articles you are working on as I will be glad to pitch in with some of the reliable sources I have. In general, a rough outline of content for a FA grape article should include:
- History (origins, parent varieties, name meaning, first record plantings, relationship to other grape varieties--siblings, offspring, etc)
- Viticulture (early/late budding, early/late ripening, high/low yielder, viticultural hazards, disease sensitivity, special vine training associated with the variety, soil types that are favored, etc)
- Winemaking (not needed for all varieties but some, such as Chardonnay, which tend to have certain winemaking practices, like malolactic fermentation, associated with them)
- Wine regions (areas of production, acreage, sometimes unique history involving the variety and the region that wasn't previously mentioned in the history section, also any unique flavor notes associated with the grape and a particular region)
- Styles of wine (the kinds of wine made from the grape--sparkling, dessert, fortified, etc--as well as a more general flavor profile that tends to be common with the variety regardless of wine region. Sometimes this flavor profile can be broken down into a general "cool climate" flavor profile versus a general "warm climate" flavor profile)
- Synonyms (Grape varieties tend to have A LOT of synonyms that the grape has been known under in various parts of the world and at various times of history. Some articles, like Pinot gris, have a chart which I think could be tidied and incorporated into other articles)
- Pictures (Ideally a grape cluster, grape leaf close up and picture of the wine itself in its various styles)
- As for the New Jersey wine article, it is already far and away the most fully developed wine region on Wikipedia. You and David have done an incredible job on it. I know the FA reviewers tend to find obscure things they would like to see improved upon but, looking at it from just a wine POV, the only things that I could see that would potentially improve it would be:
- A few details on the actual wines that were tasted at the Judgment of Princeton since this seems to be a very significant event in the history of New Jersey wine. I know the main event article has the chart (which doesn't need to be replicated here) but it feels like there should at least be at least 3 to 4 lines dedicated to the NJ wines in the event themselves, mentioning things like what general areas the wine were from, etc. Currently that section of the NJ wine article seems to focus more on the methodology and criticism of the tasting rather than on the actual wines themselves.
- The article mentions that NJ has a variety of vineyard soil types and briefly touches on some geological notes but it doesn't mention any particular soils that seem to be common in NJ wine areas. Most major wine regions of the world are intimately associated with the predominant soil type (clay soils in the Pomerol region of Bordeaux, limestone soils of Chablis, terra rosa soil of Coonawarra in Australia, etc) and, in fact, these soils are sort of "buzz words" that wine drinkers associate with quality wine so it would be of high interest to know if parts of NJ have these particular soil types.
- Acreage statistics on individual grape varieties. I know this is often hard to find, particularly with info that is relatively current. The article has a good list of all the varieties grown and makes mention of the most widely planted but it is nice to have some hard numbers to allow the reader to conceptualize just how much more widely planted the XX number of acres of Cab is in NJ versus the XX number of acres of Marechal Foch, etc. The German wine article has a very nice table (though slightly outdated) that is a great example. At the very least you may want to separate out the white and red grape varieties in the list rather than have them all grouped together in one paragraph.
- And finally, maybe a few more pictures, particularly of examples of NJ wine or of vineyards in the various AVAs. I love the historical photos. Those were a great find!
- Hope that helps! AgneCheese/Wine 05:03, 25 November 2013 (UTC)
Champagne Krug article update
Hello Agne27,
Hope you'are doing well.
I sent you some emails related to Champagne Krug article. I would like to know if you had time to read them. From what I see, few weeks ago you did some changes on this article. I would like to know if you still interested in colaborate with us in this project.
And if you will publish the version that we proposed for Champagne Krug article.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Best regards,
Tristan.sbry (talk) 14:21, 25 November 2013 (UTC)