This post will (finally) wrap up my trip with my friend David Raccah of Kosher Wine Musings to France this past November. I have to say the most fun part of each of these trips is the time that we get to spend together when we are NOT at formal tastings with other people. Its hard to find someone (outside of your spouse) whom you can tolerate let alone enjoy this much one-on-one time. But we do manage to have a lot of fun together – and when we are tasting alone that fun really is amped up. No worries about offending the host with a comment about this wine or that. We just can be ourselves. Having said that, I have tried to keep these notes as professional as I can while still keeping within the spirit of the tasting and my writing and speaking style. I do hope I achieved a balance – though I know I was not always successful (I see I called one wine a dumpster fire, another putrid swill, etc). This year, due to the time constraints, we had less time to taste in the hotel than usual. In all there are 54 wines compared with the over 80 we tasted in the hotel last year. This resulted in sometimes more abbreviated notes than usual. That’s the cost of touring a little on day one (though I do think to an extent that’s always the case with the lower end hotel wines we taste)! Hopefully I’ll be able to make up for it by coming a second time this year for another very short trip.

For now here are my notes: