Admittedly, Buridan explicitly restricts appellation to appellative terms, that is, "every term connoting something other than what it supposits for" (Summulae de Dialiectica: Treatise on Suppositions, tr. Klima, p. 291), and it "appellates that which it connotes as pertaining to that which it supposits for".
But I stick to my appellation, if only to appeal to the lyrical, blue-skied, swinging summeriness it invokes.
Perhaps one cannot count the ways to construct a play, but it seems wrongheaded to extend the appellation to a contrived, transparently methodical mishmash.
Within those areas, 17 villages are allowed to add their name to the appellation.
"Take the time to discover an appellation, to visit the region," he said.
Though federal regulations and deference to the appellation and uniqueness of Champagne require most American producers to call their wares sparkling wine, Gruet is Champagne in spirit and content.
What's more, in the late 1980s and '90s, critics and consumers became enamored of wines that did not conform to any appellation rules, like the Super-Tuscans.
We also had eight Vins de Pays (VdP) wines that don't conform to the appellation rules for one reason or another.
Over the years, I've written of Gaston Huet, who converted me to the appellation with a bottle of his 1947, and of Didier and Catherine Champalou, whose sec-tendre, or off-dry, is one of the wonders of French white wine.
"There are 'good' people, yes, who might properly answer to the appellation 'redneck,' " he wrote in Texas Monthly in 1974, "people who operate Mom-and-Pop stores or their lathes, dutifully pay their taxes, lend a helping hand to neighbors, love their country and their God and their dogs.
