Cru Beaujolais: Focus on St. Amour and Chenas
By Jeff Patten
Today we'll finish up with the two remaining crus, St. Amour and Chenas. It is tempting to assume that, because I am covering them last, I hold St. Amour and...
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Cru Beaujolais: Focus on Chiroubles
By Jeff Patten
Regnie and Chiroubles have a couple of things in common. They both border Morgon, but, unlike their famous neighbor, they are considered among the lightest and most forward-drinking of the...
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Cru Beaujolais: Focus on Cote de Brouilly and Brouilly
By Jeff Patten
We deal with two AOCs in one focus this time because, as the names suggest, these are two Crus that really ought to be discussed together. The most important distinction...
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Cru Beaujolais: Focus on Julienas
By Jeff Patten
If Julienas sounds a bit like Julius Caesar, it’s because they were actually making wine here 2000 years ago and Julius did in fact give the AOC its name (as...
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Cru Beaujolais: Focus on Fleurie
By Jeff Patten
Fleurie may lack the blockbusters that Moulin-a-Vent can produce, and it may not have the same league of famous producers that you find in Morgon, but some believe that Fleurie’s...
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Cru Beaujolais: Focus on Morgon
By Jeff Patten
Morgon is blessed with a greater number of quality producers than any of the other Crus.
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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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Cru Beaujolais: Focus on Moulin-a-Vent
By Jeff Patten
I am starting our Cru Beaujolais series with Moulin-à-Vent because of the soils that lie beneath the vines. Thanks to those soils, Moulin-à-Vent can produce a wine that many Beaujolais-lovers consider to...
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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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