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Excuse the (to some of you, unfamiliar) subject line, please -- I'm Canadian. :-)
Reading the message for "filemot" sparked my interest, since its meaning, the colour of dead leaves, is also the name of a glass colour used for wine bottles. In North America, at least, the typical burgundy-style wine bottle colour is called "dead leaf green," a sexy marketing term if there ever was one, dontcha think? ;-) Most of you will be familiar with the hue -- a green / olive / yellow colour that's unique to the burgundy-style wine bottle.
I'm wondering now whether in sophisticated European wine biz circles, the colour is called filemot.
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more likely to be feuillemorte (at least in France and Quebec :)
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And with just a little bit of searching, I find a list of bottle colours from a glass bottle company.
From http://www.rexam.com/sectors/index.asp?pageid=83
"Rexam has a wide range of furnace colours, 15 in all: flint, half white, sky, sapphire, royal blue, georgia green, light green, emerald, champagne green, dark green, antique/olive, feuille morte, light amber, amber, red amber."
A few of those would qualify as fall colours, I think.
In my experience with glass companies, I've found that the descriptive words apply pretty flexibly to the actual colours. Or maybe that should be the other way around. I've had one eminent British wine critic look askance at my "dead leaf green" bottles of Pinot Gris. "Why do you use yellow bottles?" he asked pointedly. Fortunately, he was rather more open-minded and appreciative of what was in the bottle. ;-)
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> fall colours
shardonné I presume?
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Hi BC, welcome aBoard. No need to apologize for spelling "colour" properly  . There are a few of us Canadians on Board so our U.S. friends have had to get used to the correct spelling by now. Interesting post, by the way. I knew there were different colours of wine bottles but didn’t know they were specifically named and sorted for different wines. Though I'm not a wine expert, I do love a good bottle of wine and really appreciate the different textures and nuances of the different…oh shoot, what’s the word for “cépage” in English…the wine grape varieties. I admit to ignorance about BC wineries and thought that our wineries were situated mostly in the Niagara area. Do you make anything that I could find at our alcohol commission? I’d go out and buy some.
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>> No need to apologize for spelling "colour" properly<<
lol!
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"Varieties" is good. I think the advertisers like "varietal." Here is what dic.com has to say.
va·ri·e·tal P Pronunciation Key (v-r-tl)
adj.
Of, indicating, or characterizing a variety, especially a biological variety.
n.
A wine made principally from one variety of grape and carrying the name of that grape.
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Cépage in that sense is "grape varieties", but it also just means 'grapevine', too? From cep 'vine-slip'. From Latin cippus 'picket, pointed stake'.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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Sorry about the simultaneous (mine was long in the editing phase) posting.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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>>alcohol commission<<
What on Earth . . . ?
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What on Earth
I assumed this was a reference to those provincial monopolies (Liquor Control Commissions ?) that oversee sales of beer, wine, and spirits north of the States.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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