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Is Picard's Chateau French enough?
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Sorry, but that vineyard looks nothing like Burgundy .
Well, it's what they chose. Maybe they could have done better, but they didn't
FWIW, the idea of actually shooting on location in France WAS considered, but ultimately shot down because it would have cost way too much.
So they got lucky enough to find a real winery to shoot. They had to make do with what they found.
So they got lucky enough to find a real winery to shoot. They had to make do with what they found.
Great job using Google in NC. Have you been to this area? Every vineyard doesn’t look the same. I have vineyards on the hills outside my apartment......some do look like the one they use. Why is it so important to you? Are you a wine maker?
I've been on wine tours to vineyards in California, France and NC. Honestly, they all look very similar. Wine does best when the grapes are grown in very particular climates and it would be difficult to tell on a tv show where you were. Of course, at the French one, all the tools and measures were metric and everyone spoke French, as well as all the Renaults and Citroens. So, in person you kinda know.
To be fair, looking at the screenshots of the villa in the episodes, they're not doing an awful lot to mask that the original California building was built only 30 years ago. There's not much weathering on the wall stones, and especially the white blocks framing the doorways and windows look crispy white, orderly and brand new. It might evoke the style of mediterranean buildings, but for European viewers it's painfully obvious it's a postmodern one. If French châteaux could already be medieval, Renaissance, Baroque etc, why can't the Picard family decide to build a postmodern mediterranean-style villa on their estate? Many rich people do.
Missing flying water robots. NOT canon!
1) That’s a picture of the grapes, not the house.
2) As I wrote upthread, I’d even forgive the exterior a bit, but the interior which is entirely a set?
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Didn’t it BURN DOWN in Generations? So the rebuild could have been any style and about 30 years old?
The person I was replying to said vineyard. That’s a vineyard . Yard of vines. From the French region in question. Looks a lot like NoCal.
Covered upthread. No word on where the fire happened or how bad it was, and the house didn’t look like it’s been rebuilt, not is it likely that was the intention behind its Italianate exterior and ? interior.
My wife and I first travelled to Burgundy in 2002, starting in Dijon and visiting numerous small towns , like Beaune and Autun, for two weeks before heading up to Nancy. Several years later, when I lived in Strasbourg for almost a year, I would visit neighboring regions in France as well as across the border in Germany and Switzerland. I spent a few weeks--perhaps a total of twenty five days on two trips--looking at Romanesque architecture in Burgundy in order to get a sense of how the different régions administered cultural heritage. I took time to visit more than a few vineyards and cellars--a small perk of staying away from home for so long. A few years ago, again on the way to Strasbourg for a conference, I stopped in Dijon again for a few days.
Is it important? It doesn't break Star Trek, no one needs to hunt down Alex Kurtzman or Michael Chabon with pitchforks. However, claiming that it is typically Burgundian is not intellectually honest. Ultimately, Château Picard is about a French as Kenny G is Jazz: sort of.
In 300 years it might be like horseshoes and hand grenades.
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