Another in a series of posts from France by Morgan Twain-Peterson. I am back in Bordeaux, this time stationed at Les Ormes de Pez, the smaller chateau owned by the Cazes. Though I loved living with the other interns at our little villa the village of Bages—the house was like a bad joke or sitcom [...]
September 27, 2006
As you can probably tell by now there are a lot of chateau clustered in the Medoc. Their grand facades, some in better repair than others, are probably the greatest outward manifestation of the high amount of wealth that is concentrated here. Almost all labels of chateau show the picture of the building, and with [...]
September 27, 2006
We’re one step closer to the dream. Monday night we had a meeting with our neighbor Jim to talk over the impact that our building a winery will have on their view, discuss sound issues and to ask advice on dealing with the county (Jim was a planner for many years in Sonoma County and [...]
September 22, 2006
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Pope made an honorary sommelier. Makes sense to me. I don’t think anyone can argue that the Pope is a man who has served his fair share of wine in his lifetime. Henri Jayer, world famous maker of Pinot, dies. Jayer shunned many technical innovations in winemaking and disliked uniformity in wines. Instead, he used [...]
September 21, 2006
St. Julien is home to the highest proportion of classed growths of the four major communes of the Medoc. It is also the smallest of the communes. Located just south of Pauillac, the vineyards of the “Leoville� wines, those of Ch. Leoville-Las-Cases in this case, begin where those of Ch. Latour and Pichon-Lalande end. It [...]
September 29, 2006
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