Our next organized tasting was at IDS, which really needs no introduction from me. They are responsible for some of the very best kosher wines ever produced. They are a permanent stop whenever I am in France. Unfortunately, the problem is that David (of the Kosher Wine Musings blog) tastes in France at least twice each year while I usually come only once.  IDS’s release schedule has been more in sync with David’s May trip each year and so by the time November rolls around he has often tasted through many things that I have not – and as this tasting is for us both and not wanting to burn valuable time, if David has already tasted, I usually just skip and hope to taste at some other point. But this time, Ben Uzan of IDS rolled out the red carpet and we played a little catch up – and so even though David had tasted through many of these wines, we tasted everything recent that I had not yet tasted. We even tasted a number of wines that I had tasted already at previous tastings at IDS – so there were about 30 wines we tasted through this time. Truly epic. This tasting includes all of the 2021 Aegerter releases – closing out the 2021 Burgundy vintage for me (outside of the 2021 De Montilles, which are still a couple of weeks away from release from what I understand). What it did not include is any of the IDS 2021 “big” Bordeaux wines, as none of these had yet been delivered.  So outside of Burgundy and a couple of whites, the majority of wines were 2020s with a couple of prior vintages thrown into the mix. Some really interesting stuff here including a vertical of the Trianon (which show nice consistency in profile throughout the three vintages tasted) , three different 2020 La Tour de By wines, and some other odds and ends –  I say that cavalierly – but this tasting includes some truly outstanding whites, one of the best 2020 reds (top three) and the best 2019 red (yup, even better than the 2019 PC) – making it simply one of the best kosher reds ever released.  But I’m getting ahead of myself. Let’s get started.