No Paris visit for me is complete without a visit to IDS. I have of course written about IDS many, many times. While Royal targets the entire kosher market from a price perspective, IDS’s strategy is to produce wines that target the high-end primarily, though a number of medium-end but extremely well-made wines are released each year as well. Their track record over the last decade has been impressive. This is in no small part due to Ben Uzan, who took over day to day operations of their wine business around the same time. Since then, the company has expanded significantly, and quality has been truly outstanding and consistent.

Unfortunately, the IDS big wines of 2022 (and there are quite a few including Smiith Haute Laffite, Lafon Rochet, Domaine Chevalier Red & White, etc.) were not released in time for our trip and so we had a relatively small number of wines to catch up with since the last time David Raccah (of Kosher Wine Musings fame) and I visited. Here are my notes: