Glossary entry (derived from question below)
French term or phrase:
lauréat Guide Hachette
English translation:
Hachette (Wine) Guide Award/star rating
Added to glossary by
MoiraB
Mar 31, 2011 07:43
13 yrs ago
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French term
lauréat Guide Hachette
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Wine / Oenology / Viticulture
Anyone got the English version of the Guide Hachette knocking about? Various sites imply there aren't actually any 'winners' as such, just wines given a rating (1, 2 or 3 stars) plus the 'coups de coeur' (I've seen the other entry in KOG about that http://www.proz.com/kudoz/french_to_english/wine_oenology_vi... So would this be 'Rated 3 stars in Hachette Wine Guide'?
Under wine list of a restaurant menu:
Abeille de Fieuzal Blanc 2007
Graves Pessac Leognan - S.C. Château de Fieuzal
Lauréat Guide Hachette 2007
Under wine list of a restaurant menu:
Abeille de Fieuzal Blanc 2007
Graves Pessac Leognan - S.C. Château de Fieuzal
Lauréat Guide Hachette 2007
Proposed translations
(English)
| 4 +1 | Hachette Guide Award |
Mark Nathan
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| 4 | selected by the Hachette Wine Guide |
Evans (X)
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| 3 | Hachette Wine Guide winner |
Sandra Petch
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References
| Hachette Wine Guide |
Sandra Petch
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Proposed translations
+1
1 hr
Selected
Hachette Guide Award
Not only was it selected but it won an award.
3 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Seems the best solution, though I actually opted for 'star rating'. Thanks, everyone."
27 mins
selected by the Hachette Wine Guide
The Hachette guide selects winners in various categories. I have a bottle in my cupboard with the little cardboard top saying sélectioné par le Guide Hachette des Vins that I bought in France last year. Without knowing which particular award is referred to here I would go with "selected by" - whether or not your translate Guide Hachette des Vins is pretty much up to you and depends on the type of text you are translating.
Note from asker:
| Problem with this solution - as my red wine example shows - is that with some wines the description is just 'Guide Hachette 20..', which were presumably selected but just didn't win any special awards. However, I *was* assuming 'lauréat' meant the top award, but it could of course be one of the 'lower' awards, as you say. |
47 mins
Hachette Wine Guide winner
"Winner" is as all-embracing as Lauréat and could refer to any of the Awards, star-ratings or Top Pick distinctions (see ref.).
Reference comments
19 mins
Reference:
Hachette Wine Guide
Is this any use? Mentions Awards and Top Picks (excerpt below).
http://www.lagardere.com/press-room/press-releases/press-rel...
The 2011 Hachette Wine Guide's gold, silver and bronze awards
The 2011 Hachette Wine Guide has been available in bookstores since Wednesday 1 September 2010. In 26 years, it has become the essential guide for wine lovers, who each autumn eagerly await the new selection of wines from our panels of experts, made via blind tastings during the year of publication. Objective and independent, the guide is aimed at all consumers and written in a user-friendly way. Of the 36,000 wines tasted, 10,069 made it into the guide, with 219 scoring three stars, 1,562 two stars and 3,356 one star. 471 wines were awarded "Coup de Coeur" ("Top Pick") status, with their labels reproduced in the guide.
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Note added at 41 mins (2011-03-31 08:25:18 GMT)
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Would 3 stars be a Gold Award, 2 stars Silver and 1 star Bronze? The "Top Picks" would be a distinct category.
I like Gilla's "selected by" although logically all the wines in the Guide (10,069 out of 36,000 tasted) were selected.
What about just "Winner" for Lauréat?
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Note added at 45 mins (2011-03-31 08:29:05 GMT)
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From wineanorak.com – The "coups de cœur" (love at first sip, as they say!) are distinct from the star rating
To make their selection, this team tastes 30 000 wines, of which 9000 make the guide. Each of the wines that is selected is given a rating: the wines included but not given a star rating are considered to be typical of the area and worth a mention; one star is a good wine; two stars is an excellent wine; and three stars is an exceptional wine and a perfect example of the appellation. There’s also an extra award (wonderfully French in its quirkiness) called the ‘coups de coeur’. This doesn’t translate easily to English, but refers to wines the tasters fell in love with at first sip, and they get their labels reproduced in the guide along their entry. Interestingly, not all the coups de coeur winners are three star wines. I’m glad of the imprecision of this scale: with so many different palates contributing to the assessments, any rating attempting to be more exact would be a bit silly.
http://www.lagardere.com/press-room/press-releases/press-rel...
The 2011 Hachette Wine Guide's gold, silver and bronze awards
The 2011 Hachette Wine Guide has been available in bookstores since Wednesday 1 September 2010. In 26 years, it has become the essential guide for wine lovers, who each autumn eagerly await the new selection of wines from our panels of experts, made via blind tastings during the year of publication. Objective and independent, the guide is aimed at all consumers and written in a user-friendly way. Of the 36,000 wines tasted, 10,069 made it into the guide, with 219 scoring three stars, 1,562 two stars and 3,356 one star. 471 wines were awarded "Coup de Coeur" ("Top Pick") status, with their labels reproduced in the guide.
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Note added at 41 mins (2011-03-31 08:25:18 GMT)
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Would 3 stars be a Gold Award, 2 stars Silver and 1 star Bronze? The "Top Picks" would be a distinct category.
I like Gilla's "selected by" although logically all the wines in the Guide (10,069 out of 36,000 tasted) were selected.
What about just "Winner" for Lauréat?
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Note added at 45 mins (2011-03-31 08:29:05 GMT)
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From wineanorak.com – The "coups de cœur" (love at first sip, as they say!) are distinct from the star rating
To make their selection, this team tastes 30 000 wines, of which 9000 make the guide. Each of the wines that is selected is given a rating: the wines included but not given a star rating are considered to be typical of the area and worth a mention; one star is a good wine; two stars is an excellent wine; and three stars is an exceptional wine and a perfect example of the appellation. There’s also an extra award (wonderfully French in its quirkiness) called the ‘coups de coeur’. This doesn’t translate easily to English, but refers to wines the tasters fell in love with at first sip, and they get their labels reproduced in the guide along their entry. Interestingly, not all the coups de coeur winners are three star wines. I’m glad of the imprecision of this scale: with so many different palates contributing to the assessments, any rating attempting to be more exact would be a bit silly.
Note from asker:
| I'd just this minute found the same site! Slightly confusing, as it then goes on to talk about 'Gold award, three-star "Coup de Coeur" presented to ...' / 'Silver award, two-star "Coup de Coeur" ...', etc. - yet paragraph you quote suggests coup de coeur is separate from the gold, silver & bronze awards... |
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