Posts from the ‘Rhone’ Category

May 9

Domaine de l’Harmas in Châteauneuf du Pape

Nathalie Fabre standing in lieu-dit Mont-Redon amongst the vines of Grenache planted by her grandfather in 1927

Nathalie Fabre left the tasting room at Domaine de l’Harmas and returned with a typewritten document from 1933, with much greater speed than it would have taken to locate the document online. Her grandfather, Bois Lauzon, had joined the fight to create the Châteauneuf-du-Pape AOC, and this was the document that she inherited, along with 3.5ha in Châteauneuf-du-Pape, split between three different parcels, including a 1ha plot in the lieu-dit Mont-Redon. With the lieu-dit Boislauzon named for her grandfather, which is now farmed by her siblings, Daniel and Christine Chaussey at Mas de Boislauzon, her family has been farming in Châteauneuf-du-Pape for five generations.

May 2

Yves Cuilleron of Vins de Vienne

Yves Cuilleron of Vins de Vienne

“Yves Cuilleron asked me a few questions over dinner earlier this year,” said Tom, “as he’d been searching for the right partner in the US for many years, and was curious about our success and our history. And while I assured him that we are much too small and too humble to be accredited with any reputed fame, I did tell him that when we taste a wine that we like and when we meet a vigneron that we admire, we act with direct intention. So, here we are, unprecedented, we have waited 18 years to procure our first offering of Northern Rhône wines…”