@The London Wine Trade Fair – Monday 18th May 2015

A massage Sir before the start of the Fair? Brett Crittenden relaxes!

The Benevolent Bus

 

The bus and the Benevolent Team headed by David Cox 

José Manuel Ortega tutoring the CWW O Fournier Master Class

Stephen Brook (above) and Steven Spurrier (below)

Ortega's 'godfathers'

Sarah Jayne Evans MW@CWW Master Class 

Colin Hampden-White 

Mathieu Fleuriet, Domaine Bernard Fleuriet, Sancerre

 Chanel and Denise Gitton, Sancerre and Pouilly-Fumé

  Chanel Gitton

Pascal Gitton

 

Pascal Guilbaud, Guilbaud Frères (Muscadet)

 Aynard Clermont-Tonnerre, Touraine and Montlouis

Isabelle Clermont-Tonnerre, Touraine and Montlouis

 

French Independent Wine Growers: a few more pics and wines

 Côme Rouze, Domaine Jacques Rouze

Domaine Jacques Rouze has nearly 20 hectares of vines: 15 in Quincy, three in the neighbouring appellation of Reuilly and 1.5ha in Châteaumeillant. My favourite wine from the four that Côme, Jacques' son, was showing was the unfinished 2012 Quincy Vignes d'Antan from old vines producing a wine of concentration and character.   

Denise Gitton (above and below)

Pascal and Denise Gitton are very much in favour of giving their Sancerre and Pouilly-Fumé, vinified and bottled by individual vineyards, time to express themselves. The point was well demonstrated by the weighty and evolved 2007 Galinots Sancerre from vines on flint.   

Véronique Moindrot (?), Domaine de Loye, Menetou-Salon

 Valentin Moindrot, Domaine de Loye, Menetou-Salon 

There were two wines on show from the Domaine de Loye in Morogues: a 2011 white Menetou-Salon and the 2011 red. My preference was for the red which had an attractive silky, smoky texture although quite edgy in the finish.