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Le petit blanc et le groleau coule à flots

English translation: White and rosé wine flowed freely

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French term or phrase:Le petit blanc et le grolleau coule à flots
English translation:White and rosé wine flowed freely
Entered by: Florence Bremond

10:39 Mar 20, 2002
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French term or phrase: Le petit blanc et le groleau coule à flots
Pour son (du navire) départ, la foule nantaise s’est précipitée sur le quai des Antillais. Ouvriers et bourgeois ont mis l’habit du dimanche. Le petit blanc et le groleau coule à flots.
Bharg Shah
India
Local time: 10:24
white and rosé wine flowed freely
Explanation:
grolleau is spelt with a double l and usually produces rosé wines
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DPolice
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Summary of answers provided
4 +3wine flowed (flows) freely
LAC
4 +1white wine flowed freely...
Gayle Wallimann
4 +1white and rosé wine flowed freely
DPolice
4white wine and groleau galore
Madeleine van Zanten
4Both "petit blanc" and "groleau" are
Pierre POUSSIN


  

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12 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
white wine flowed freely...


Explanation:
As for the groleau, I can't find it anywhere. Is it merhaps a brand or a type of drink? I checked Google and came up empty-handed.

Gayle Wallimann
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agree  Nicola Da Si (X)
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17 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
white wine and groleau galore


Explanation:
hope this helps

Madeleine van Zanten
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17 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
wine flowed (flows) freely


Explanation:
"petit blanc" and "groleau" are both types of wine (white, I think but am not sure, for groleau as well).

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Note added at 2002-03-20 11:00:22 (GMT)
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PS a quick google search turned up \"groleau\" as a type of wine from the Loire Atlantique (typical of wines from the Pays de Retz) that comes in white or \"gris\" (any wine experts know what \"gris\" is for wine??)

LAC
France
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neutral  Gayle Wallimann: gris is a very pale rosé, it looks grayish in color.
6 mins
  -> Thank you, Gayle.
agree  Alisu S-G
1 hr
agree  Didier Fourcot: Groleau should be left as is or replaced with a suitable phrase if too obscure for the intended audience, "vin gris" is used even in the US: http://www.bvwine.com/wines/specialty/pinotnoirvingris00.php...
3 hrs
agree  Nikki Scott-Despaigne: Maybe even "REgional white wine flowed freely" or something of that ilk, to convey that it is wine from Loire Atlantique.
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37 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
Both "petit blanc" and "groleau" are


Explanation:
common wine from the "Nantes area"
(thik also of "mucadet","gros plant" etc... The only wine produced in Brittany! (I know, some will say that Nantes is NOT in Brittany; 'tis another point!)

Pierre POUSSIN
France
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white and rosé wine flowed freely


Explanation:
grolleau is spelt with a double l and usually produces rosé wines


    Reference: http://www.vitis.org/CEPAGES.html
DPolice
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Thank you for your help.

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agree  ydmills
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