Easter weekend
Thanks to Daniel Perez and his wife’s visit after 52 years of separation (we are from the same village in Algeria), we drank a wine offered by Bernard Magrez and made by him in Algeria for Gerard Depardieu. Mascara 2002, made with Southern varietals:...
José Penin & Wine Spectator
Jose Penin, the famous Spanish critic, has not been in Saint Emilion for quite a while and we had the opportunity to see him at home to taste some wines presented by Jean Guyon which was nice for Rollan de By, Tour Seran; our Roussillon wines also rece...
Friday, April 6
Quiet day: a few journalists and critics, Ian D'Agata, Bernard Burtschy, Abi Duhr, Julia Harding (Jancis Robinson's assistant), Eric Riewer.Dinners with our local artists Michel Puzio and Michel Gracia plus 6 people:Asparagus vinaigrette, truffle omele...
Thursday, April 5th and Wine Spectator’s Notes
First, the good news: 92-95, the 2nd highest score of the vintage behind Cheval Blanc which has 93-96! In addition our wine was tasted blind outside our property.Last Thursday, a lot of visitors came, nice attendance, especially at 12:30 pm. It is true...
Wednesday, April 4
We had fewer visitors in the morning, but it picked-up in the afternoon and the evening got a bit too busy to manage traffic with our visitor friends. We’re starting to feel tired from these 3 days, just a few days left and then, it will just be pre-...
Tuesday, April 3
Many visitors stopped by. As expected, well-known, rare and expensive wines were popular, for example, we used 5 bottles for those versus 1 for less famous properties or even for wines the owner himself was not present!Many Americans, Russians, Japanes...
Monday, April 2
James Suckling’s notes just came out. He gave nice ratings to my wines and those of my friends.1st day before UGC, all of our colleagues exhibitors are ready and in good spirit except Jean Michel Deiss who has an issue with his digestive system, a pr...
Journalists and critics
We already saw Anthony Gerbelle, who was the 1st to taste our wines as well as Robert Parker and currently James Molesworth.Following, were Michael Schuster on Thursday, Izak Litwar and Niko Dukan on Friday. Saturday, the actual beginning of the future...
Left Bank
Cru Bourgeois: Finally, Château Bellevue de Tayac, was accepted! We could have gotten it before, but each time, we forgot a paper or a procedure because Margaux is far from Saint Emilion and we are already swamped with different procedures, control ag...
Bad Girl
The whole team participated in a blind tasting of our cuvee Bad Girl, 2009, Crémant de Bordeaux, still aging in our partner Lionel Lateyron’s cellar, to know how much dosage of liquor we think our customers and interested clientele would like.During...
Algeria
The Pieds-Noirs (Blackfoot or French settlers in North Africa’s colonies) and wine have a long history. Algeria was a large and important producer and some wines were quite famous and not just to “Hermitager” (color and strengthen) great wines of...
This weekend’s events
Saturday, March 24 we were invited by generous friends for dinner considering the bottles they opened, especially as we were five.Puligny Montrachet Les Combettes 1er Cru from Domaine Prieur, delicious, ripe, opulentSaint Emilion, Chateau Ausone 1986 (...
