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Jerome Bressy – crazily passionate in Rasteau
Jerome Bressy of the Domaine Gourt de Mautens in Rasteau just up the road from Sablet has quite a repuation to keep. His wines are harder to find than many Chateauneuf-du-Papes. "Are you a peasant?" I...
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Down to work at the Grenache symposium
It wasn’t all carefree banter at the Grenache symposium this last weekend. We also had to taste some wine. About to be sipped. Grenache lined up. Chester (d’Arenberg) Osborne’s sartorial style can be...
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Child abuse in Rasteau
Knocked this down on Saturday night with great friends from my misspent youth. Too early, far too early. 2005 was the Parker-hyped year of the century, and prices, especially over in Bordeaux hit the...
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A torrid evening with Jérôme Bressy
Such freedom in Jérôme Bressy’s vines in Rasteau! The plants are spaced wide (about 3000 per hectare) in gobelet (bush vine) form and therefore don’t have any wires between them. You can walk anywhere...
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Gourt de Mautens 2006: coming good
My mate Pierre knocked on the door late last week. He had his usual little grin. He was hiding something behind his back. “Come in, Pierre,” I said. “Come in for lunch.” It was a half-finished 2006...
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How far can winemaking take us?
Is wine-making a technical exercise or does it go beyond mental processes to something we might even call spiritual? Several recent stories I wrote on appellations and brands in response to a...
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