* Jamais oubliez que les vins de Claude Papin sont toujours superb – Premier Règle de Château Pierre-Bise!
Joëlle Papin forgets the First Rule of Pierre-Bise
(Stars of the Layon – L-R: Catherine and Vincent Ogereau, Joëlle and Claude Papin, Marie-Annick and Yves Guegniard)
Ask him on my behalf to tell you, for the nth time, his true story on how blending-in several types of Chenin from several terroirs homogenizes their speed of polymerization and leads to a more harmonic evolution in time, without the “hollow” episodes which many a wine go through.
ReplyDeleteAnd ask him about his recipe of fresh strawberries in a rosé-based soup.
And ask him about a walk in the Coulée de Serrant (as thieves, incognito) somewhere in 1995, with a bunch of idiots, all mocking his Majesty Joly.
And tell him we are drinking les Rouannières now, and Louche, and Verger and .... mostly 1990, as well as his Quarts-de-Chaume (1992, that one).
And say hello to him, if he still remembers me. I, for one, never forget his wines are superb!
As you say Luc!
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