WINE TASTING
Tour de France: Vol. 1
Join us for this first instalment of Le Tour de France (sans sueur!), a serialized guided tasting through the immense vin-scape of the terroir holy land, LA FRANCE. This happy, vicarious jaunt through the geological jumble (with zero bicyclists harmed in the process) will touch on / taste through the history and culture and actual people who make these wines come true, led by your old friend, French Wine Scholar and edutainer du vin, Joe Gurba of Vino al Vino Imports.
The Volume 1 line up is a doozy, and unabashedly steers to the lesser known nooks of the French vignoble. Come learn about the noble rot wines of Monbazillac; the triumphant return of Malbec in Bordeaux’s furthest reaches, Blaye; the alternate universe we call the Jura; Cairanne, the new cru of the Southern Rhône; the gastronomic rosés of the south in the limestone screes of Saint-Chinian; and perhaps the most exciting emergent terroir in the world for white wine, the in-our-times redemption of Muscadet. Our journey:
2023 GILBERT & GAILLARD Languedoc AOC Le Rosé
2022 LUNEAU PAPIN Muscadet Sèvre et Maine AOC Clos de l'Allée Monopole
STÉPHANE TISSOT BBF Blanc de Blancs
2020 CAMILLE CAYRAN Cairanne AOC Grande Réserve
2020 HAUT-GRELOT Blaye Côtes de Bordeaux AOC Pin Franc Malbec
2017 CHÂTEAU KALIAN-BERNASSE Monbazillac AOC
