Top Ten Reminders from a Trip to Italy
By Jeff Patten
I was recently in Italy for a couple weeks. It was for a combination wedding and family vacation -- not wine-related at all -- in Tuscany and Umbria. So there...
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Patrick Piuze and John B. Truax tasting in Chablis
By flatironwines Admin
Our last stop in Chablis was with Patrick Piuze, a 41 year old French Canadian who found his way to Burgundy. He worked the harvest for Franck Grux at Olivier Leflaive in...
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Dispatch: Bartolo Mascarello (Maria Theresa)
By flatironwines Admin
Having the opportunity taste at Bartolo Mascarello was one of the great honors of my life. I have been in love with the wines since my first bottle of 1996...
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Dispatch: Cavallotto
By flatironwines Admin
The vineyards of Barolo are impossibly beautiful. My first morning, I woke up to the legendary fog that gives the local Nebbiolo grape its namesake.
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Dispatch: Bastille Day Chez Lapierre
By flatironwines Admin
Apologies for the lack of dispatches. I am back in Amsterdam for at least a week and I am excited to restart the telling of my tale. I have been...
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Wine Wanderings: A Visit with Thierry Allemand
By Jeff Patten
This visit was definitely a highlight on a recent trip to France. To get to Thierry's, we made the short walk -- perhaps 30 paces -- from the winery of...
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Dispatch: Arrival in Piemonte
By flatironwines Admin
So, after resting and recuperating for a few days in Morgon, it was time to head south to where my love affair with wine really began: Piemonte.
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Wine Wanderings: Beaujolais
By Jeff Patten
Beaujolais is a great place to travel when you're with the team from Kermit Lynch. No U.S. importer has done more to promote the wines of Beaujolais than Kermit Lynch....
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Wine Wanderings: Another Visit with Pierre Breton
By Jeff Patten
From Joguet we drove directly to Pierre Breton. We had hung out at Pierre’s place only a few months earlier and it was good to see him again. On this...
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Wine Wanderings: Loire Valley Day 3 (Continued) (Again)
By Jeff Patten
It was a great appointment with Philippe Foreau – 90 minutes longer than he had slotted us in for – and so we were late to an embarrassing degree for...
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Wine Wanderings: Loire Valley Day 3 (Continued)
By Jeff Patten
After Huet we just had time to squeeze in lunch at la Geule Noire, a nice farm-to-table in a cave carved out of tuffeau stone where the chef attempts to...
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Wine Wanderings: Loire Valley Day 3
By Jeff Patten
Day 3 would turn out to be our longest day, and the five hours of sleep after numerous bottles of wine was not ideal preparation. Still, we managed to pile...
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Wine Wanderings: Loire Valley Day 2 (Continued)
By Jeff Patten
We drove straight from Marc Deschamp’s domaine in Pouilly-sur-Loire to Domaine Thomas Labaille in Chavignol. Chavignol is in the Sancerre appellation, on a hill across the valley to the west...
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