The August Newsletter is now available. Click here to download the pdf. Highlights from this month’s newsletter… INTRODUCING DAVIDE VIGNATO by Dixon Brooke I am so grateful for having discovered this obscure region, in the volcanic basalt hills east of Soave in northern Italy’s Veneto. I have always loved Venetian whites made from the Garganega […]
Posted on April 2, 2009, 6:18 pm, by Clark, under
Alsace,
Auguste Clape,
Burgundy,
Château D'Epiré,
Kuentz-Bas,
Loire Valley,
Pierre Guillemot,
Producer Websites,
Red Wine,
Rhône,
White Wine.
Last week’s staff tasting at the Berkeley shop featured a line-up of classic Kermit Lynch imports. Kermit likes to taste white before red, young before old, and north to south so we started off far to the north in Alsace with a couple wines from Maison Kuentz-Bas. Kuentz-Bas strives for a traditional style of winemaking, […]