Last week’s staff tasting focused on recent arrivals from Corsica and the south of France. More often than not, Kermit likes to taste north to south, however this time we started in Corsica and moved north to the mainland. Our normal behavior is also to taste white before red, but I’ve heard of other people [...]
We voted at the end of the tasting. Kermit asked, “which red did you like best, the ‘Pourpre’ or the ‘Causse du Bousquet?’” Out of the eight voters it was a split decision (Kermit was the ninth attendee but didn’t vote). Each red received four votes. What does that mean? It was close, I could [...]
Posted on April 17, 2009, 5:38 pm, by Clark Z. Terry, under
Burgundy,
Champagne,
Domaine de Reuilly,
Domaine les Pallieres,
Events,
Loire Valley,
Oyster Bliss,
Rhône.
Don’t forget to join us for tomorrow’s 18th annual Oyster Bliss event!
Here are the details:
Saturday, April 18th
11am to 4pm
No reservations required.
Hog Island Oysters, homemade sausages by Christopher Lee of Eccolo, and wines by the glass are served à la carte.
Cash only!
Denis Jamain of Domaine de Reuilly will be pouring his wines!
This event is presented by [...]
Posted on March 27, 2009, 6:14 pm, by Clark Z. Terry, under
Bandol,
Burgundy,
Domaine Tempier,
Languedoc,
Loire Valley,
Provence,
Rhône,
Rosé,
St. Martin de la Garrigue.
Any time someone uses a superlative to describe one of our wines, we tend to appreciate it and enjoy the fact that someone else out there enjoys our wines as much as we do. Kermit has long described the Bandol Rosé from Domaine Tempier as the best rosé in the world. Jeremy Parzen of the [...]