http://www.vinegeek.com/2009/12/oddball-wine-of-the-week-prieto-picudo/ wine is interesting. Fri, 13 Aug 2010 01:47:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.vinegeek.com/2009/12/oddball-wine-of-the-week-prieto-picudo/comment-page-1/#comment-417 Jim/VINEgeek Fri, 29 Jan 2010 04:40:24 +0000 http://www.vinegeek.com/?p=1548#comment-417 Thanks for the info, Nick. I enjoyed the wine, whatever the words mean! Thanks for the info, Nick. I enjoyed the wine, whatever the words mean!

]]> http://www.vinegeek.com/2009/12/oddball-wine-of-the-week-prieto-picudo/comment-page-1/#comment-401 Nick in DC Sat, 23 Jan 2010 19:49:34 +0000 http://www.vinegeek.com/?p=1548#comment-401 Hey folks, as a native Spanish-speaker, you anglos can be very entertaining! "Prieto picudo" translates perfectly well from normal Spanish. Prieto means "dark" and picudo means "peaked". The grape is not-very-exotically named dark-peaked. The name reminds me of "pinot noir" in that it refers to the shape of the bunch and the color. Personally, I love prieto picudo wine, esp after 2-4 years so some of the kola nut flavor calm down. Hey folks, as a native Spanish-speaker, you anglos can be very entertaining! “Prieto picudo” translates perfectly well from normal Spanish. Prieto means “dark” and picudo means “peaked”. The grape is not-very-exotically named dark-peaked. The name reminds me of “pinot noir” in that it refers to the shape of the bunch and the color. Personally, I love prieto picudo wine, esp after 2-4 years so some of the kola nut flavor calm down.

]]> http://www.vinegeek.com/2009/12/oddball-wine-of-the-week-prieto-picudo/comment-page-1/#comment-297 Jim/VINEgeek Wed, 16 Dec 2009 04:08:52 +0000 http://www.vinegeek.com/?p=1548#comment-297 Glad to have a linguistics geek among my readers! I'll turn to you with future translation challenges (though Google Translate offers it's own kind of fun). Glad to have a linguistics geek among my readers! I’ll turn to you with future translation challenges (though Google Translate offers it’s own kind of fun).

]]> http://www.vinegeek.com/2009/12/oddball-wine-of-the-week-prieto-picudo/comment-page-1/#comment-295 Benito Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:49:11 +0000 http://www.vinegeek.com/?p=1548#comment-295 Prieto Picudo is probably a Leonese or Galician name, which would make an online translator work about as well as pumping diesel into your standard gasoline car. I've found with a bunch of these Spanish wines that regular Spanish doesn't cut it; a full understanding requires Basque, Catalá, and a dozen other obscure languages. I've run into similar problems with the Provençal dialect of French and the weird Sardo variant of Italian in Sardinia. OK, so they're not problems, they're like crack for a linguistics geek. ;) Prieto Picudo is probably a Leonese or Galician name, which would make an online translator work about as well as pumping diesel into your standard gasoline car. I’ve found with a bunch of these Spanish wines that regular Spanish doesn’t cut it; a full understanding requires Basque, Catalá, and a dozen other obscure languages. I’ve run into similar problems with the Provençal dialect of French and the weird Sardo variant of Italian in Sardinia. OK, so they’re not problems, they’re like crack for a linguistics geek.

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