Canadian blogger D2Fang loves Cahors wines and explains why in a wonderful post on his blog, La Cave de Fang. Enjoy!

Journalist Melissa Priestley wrote an informative article on the Malbec grape, her "guilty pleasure". She compares French and Argentinian Malbec and seems to have a slight preference for the French. "Malbec indulges you with almost indecently ripe fruit and silky oak; its firm tannins and balancing acidity are the only things that keep it from the fruit-bomb realm", writes Priestley.

A French wine professional and sommelier based in New York, author of the blog LeDomduVin, enjoyed tasting Château de Gaudou wines. "Overall, I loved this wine. It is a fruity, quite dense, well rounded, pleasing Cahors that has very good acidity to balance the fruit and non-astringent, earthy tannins that nicely frame the palate."

Read his full post.

I always follow with a real delight the posts of a French American blogger, also a wine broker. Last week, he was traveling to Cahors to taste the wines of the Durou family at Château de Gaudou. En route to Cahors, our blogger stopped to have lunch with his uncle and aunt - very creative people and, as you'll read the menu, talented cooks as well. The meal was shared over a great bottle of wine: "We drank a 2006 Château de Gaudou Grande Lignée, a Malbec/Merlot blend that had been aged in oak barrels to give it heft and add some complexity. Very young and tight, this needed to be coaxed out of the glass before offering rich, dark fruits and an elegant mouthfeel. Lovely with the food."

But, of course, the important moment of the trip was the tasting at Château de Gaudou. "Returning to the domaine, we found Fabrice pumping over the 2008 Tradition, Grande Lignée and Renaissance. He took a moment to pull us over to the tank with the 1733, his entry wine, a 100% Malbec focusing mainly on freshness rather than power or weight." Our blogger even had the privilege to taste from the barrel. What a lucky man! Read his post to know more and enjoy!

On Monday, Eric Asimov was quoted as thinking French Malbec wines from Cahors are good value. The famous wine critic didn't even seem to question the fact his readers and wine drinkers knew and appreciated French Malbec wines from Cahors.

Today I just read an interesting discussion on an other blog. It seems Cahors wines are not as widely known from American consumers: "While it is taken completely for granted in the US that Malbec is much better than Cahors, the French version of it, I would tend to dispute it", writes one blogger. The other one chipped in: "OK, first of all, I don't know anyone in the US who says that. OTOH, I know a lot of people in the US who have never heard of Cahors, but that's another story!"

 American readers, let us know what you think by emailing us.

Blogs and buzz on the Internet are all about the lean times ahead because of the financial crisis. The new game for wine lovers is to find good wines at a nice price. Eric Asimov, the wine critic of the New York Times, wrote on his blog, "The Pour", a long article on French wines between $10 and $20 he thinks are good value. One of them is "the 2005 Clos Siguier from Cahors, the grape’s home region. Cahors is known for heavy, somewhat stolid wines, but the Clos Siguier, at $12.99, is a far cry from that, light and perfumed yet juicy and refreshing."