It was my first ever wine trip circa 1996 with Kermit Lynch Imports to France. Not only my first wine trip but my first trip ever to France complete with a security breach at CDG Airport where Security blew up a package that had been left unattended (like you hear in every airport today) not 100 yards from where I was exiting the plane.
We started in the Rhone yet we were tasting the Burgundy Appellation? We had arrived at what would forever be etched in my taste RAM as the Father of the Gang of Four- Marcel Lapierre. The iconic figure, whom posthumously continues via his son, to teach the ideals of Cru Beaujolais making most wine professionals weak in the knee's after tasting his the virtues of the grape Gamay.
Holy crap! I was in his cellar with ALL the gang of four. Marcel (the Man), Jean Foillard, Guy Breton and Jean Paul Thevenet. He had amassed the gang of four for the 10 of us traveling from the US, even despite just a week prior one of the gang of four had lost his nephew who drowned in one of the tanks as he was overwhelmed by CO2 during pigage.
Needless to say I will probably never have the opportunity to meet so many iconic men & women who raise wine as I did that day. So stop by Friday and try some rock stars from the one and only Kermit Lynch.
Wines to be tasted:
Domaine Reuilly Pinot Gris 2015
Kuentz Bas Riesling 2014
Robert Denogent Macon Fuisse Les Taches 2013
Brunier le Pigeoulet Rouge Vaucluse 2014
Domaine de Fontsaint Corbieres Rouge 2014
Clos la Coutal Cahors 2014
Lapierre Morgon 2015
Champagne J. Lassalle Preference NV
