Prosecco - 2013

Pierre Gagnaire in his restaurant Le Balzac Paris, april 2021, Its been more than a year ( march 15 ) that the restaurants have been closed down in France because of the pandemic and higher risk of transmission among unmasked people sharing the same rooms for a couple of hours. French restaurants were then allowed to partly reopen again in june 2020 before having to shut down again on september 28 following the up-and-downs of the pandemic. This have been a heavy blow for many...

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Underground tasting Here is the third tasting I attended recently in the Loir-et-Cher (for professionals only as well), and this one was underground in many regards, not just because it took place in these deep cellars between Thésée and Montrichard, but also because it was intendly not publicized in order to avoid crowds, something understandable given the display of cellar galleries in general. I happened to see a poster announcing the event while in the tasting at ...

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Olivier Lemasson Ouchamps , Sologne (Loire) There was another multi-location tasting event that weekend, it was in the Sologne region near Blois, the region that is home to many rebels, like Courtois, Villemade Lemasson, Venier, Puzelat and others. This professional tasting event was also taking place along 3 days (friday to monday), and spread over 6 locations, namely the facilities of Puzelat, Lemasson, Villemade, Venier, Tessier and P.O. Bonhomme, and the participating vigneron...

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At the door of the chai Thésée , Touraine (Loire) Professional tastings are slowly back, at least in the natural-wine world, and this is a healthy thing, there have been so few in the last 12 months. It seems the conventional/commercial wineries are way too fearful of the what will people say factor and of the authorities, and wont dare anything, plus they rarely do such collective tastings with fellow producers in the chai/cellar of one of them. Thats what makes the...

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Jér�me Maillot outside his house Pourri�res , Var (Provence) This is maybe in winter that you understand best why painters like Cézanne and Van Gogh flocked to the Sainte Victoire ridge at the edge of the Var and the Bouches-du-Rh�ne départements in Provence : like much of Provence theres a unique magic in the light, due probably by the strong winds that keep humidity & clouds at bay. Jér�me who is a native from the region lives in this house in the middle ...

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Laurent at work Pouillé , Touraine (Loire) I also visited Laurent Saillard who was like Anouk & Paul in the vineyard pruning with a small team. The temperature was a bit less cold than a few days before (Thésée is just facing Pouillé on the other side of the Cher river) I found them in the parcel of Pineau dAunis (the one for the cuvée Scarlette) not very far from Laurents chai on the plateau. The vines on this 50-are parcel are something like 50 yea...

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Moses at the cellar door Faverolles-sur-Cher , Touraine (Loire) I visited recently Pascal Potaire and Moses Gadouche at their cellar at Les Capriades , everything was quiet in the facility, this is winter, a season where you just let the wines quietly make their way through the following spring. Pascal told me that the sparkling wines had a swift fermentation last autumn, this was all very smooth and easy this year. There was nothing to see for these wines, they were all bottled ...

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