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Dear Friends - Chers amis

Si vous avez dégusté nos vins, cette page est vous donnera l'occasion de laisser un commentaire.

If you have tasted our wines, this page give you a chance to leave a comment.

Cheers,

Jean-Marc

Comments

[Rédigé par:Pat]

Salut Jean-Marc,

We are walking a circle in the Dentelles de Montmirail in a few weeks. We'll begin and end in Le Barroux, visiting Gigondas, Seguret, Baumes de Venise and Vaison la Romain. Will we be able to taste your wine in any of these locales? I hope so! We have enjoyed your website and your adventures. We're thrilled with all of the well-deserved success. Felicitations!
Pat

[Rédigé par:Betty Frost]

I am hopeful that we will be able to find your wines in
Seattle, WA soon. I guess I can always drive to Oregon!
It was a pleasure tasting your wines when you were in Seattle.

Betty

[Rédigé par:Annabelle and Bill]

Dear Jean-Marc and Kristin,
We missed seeing you when we were in Mirabel-aux-Baronnies in April, as you were on your way to the U.S. Great to hear about the continued success of your wine. We were in Les Arcs, wish we had seen your list of 'where to find our wines"! Any plans to expand into Ontario, Canada? We'll look for you, and your wines, on our next trip to France! Felicitations!
Annabelle and Bill

[Rédigé par:Candice]

I loved the flavor and the smoothness when I got to taste it at Union Square Wines in NYC a few weeks ago.

I can't wait to receive the bottles I ordered and will look for it in Paris to share with my Parisian friends when I'm there next week.

You're off to a wonderful start!

Bonne Chance!

[Rédigé par:Suzette et Owen Neff]

Jean Marc
Not all Americans are spoiled rotten incompetents though the tragic president that we elected some years ago would make us appear otherwise. My husband (mon mari) and I so greatly delight in visiting your incredibly exquisite country that we despair that this year the dollar is so greatly devalued (is that a surprise?)that we cannot even contemplate a trip to that land we so deeply love. We shall talk with our local wine distributor here in Asheville, North Carolina and ask him to include some of the vintages that you have worked so hard to produce.May we together, with Kristin's considerable help do our part to further understanding beween our nations. We are, after all,all of us, a village,known as tout le monde.
Felicitations,
Suzette Neff

[Rédigé par:Madeleine]

Greetings from Merlion restaurant in Seabrook Texas! Thank you so much for your wonderful wine. I have just sold 4 cases in the last 2 weeks ...my clientle LOVE LOVE Rouge Bleu! I met you at the wine tasting at Maxs restaurant in Houston with Tim & fell in love with your wine. I thank you ....my clients thank you.
Best Wishes, Madeleine

[Rédigé par:Jeff Millard]

I had two bottles shipped to me here in Santa Ynez, CA from French Country Wines in Texas. Very impressive wine! Love it! I grew up in this major wine region here in California and have nearly a hundred different labels produced in a 45 mile radius. As much of a francophile as I am I simply had to say that our local wines were better than the comparable French imports-- until now. Rouge-Bleu est super! L'acheté!

Jeff

[Rédigé par:Charles]

The Dentelle is a glossy purple in the glass and at first taste reminds me of the tanks in the cellar.....a yummy, country first taste is followed by the smooth mellowness of the Grenache. Not much bouquet for the nose, but a smooth lingering finish. The wine seems to need some time in the bottle to finish it's melding. The few tasters have had a hard time adjusting their palates to a blend and they have little experience with Rhone blends. But in time they will appreciate the Rhone for it's smoothness yet ability to reflect the terrior.

[Rédigé par:laura @ cucina testa rossa]

My shipment just arrived today! I practically stalked the fedex man until he arrived. I ran to a friend's house, popped the cork and savored every drop. It transported me back to St Cecile, tasting the vineyard and earth and rugged mountains and tiny creek....even the stolen "fertilizer" :) but most of all the love that went into nurturing every little vine day after day, ladybug after ladybug. what a delight this wine is! Merci merci merci! Laura

[Rédigé par:Barbara and Jim Pickens]

Jean Marc,
We shared our first bottle with friends and all agreed that this was a great wine! We ejoyed it thoroughly and are already planning to buy more on line, as our case will not last through the summer. Know your are overwhelmed at the moment, but the economy will pick up by next year here in the USA and our dollar will be worth much more after the elections. In the meantime, know we appreciate your hard work and that we are still in love with your wonderful wine! It would be fun to come and help in the vineyards, but we can't afford it this year. Maybe some of the copains would enjoy helping you, that can. Hang in there!

[Rédigé par:Claire Fontaine]

Truly one of the best reds I've ever tasted. I don't know how to describe it properly in "wine-speak" but the words that most come to mind are complex, compelling, mysterious... "deep." I can't imagine a wine shop anywhere that wouldn't carry it - I'm certainly going to do my best to convince those in my area! You've created a masterpiece, Jean-Marc - Bravo! Claire Fontaine

[Rédigé par:Marti]

Where in Florida are your wines sold? I am waiting to taste Rouge Bleu!! I have been looking hard.

Maybe this fall on my artistic travels to France I can find some.
All the best
Marti Schmidt

[Rédigé par:Lisa]

Thank you Jean-Marc and Kristin for the wine tasting at your beautiful vineyard during our recent family vacation in France. We all really enjoyed the wines and learning about Domaine Rouge-Bleu. The Dentelle is wonderful and the preview of the Mistral was excellent. We look forward to enjoying more of your wine, blogs and books! Merci! Lisa

[Rédigé par:Greg Dennis]

Thank you for your hospitality when Leslie and I visited in May, and apologies for this belated note.
I'm a columnist for a newspaper in Middlebury, VT USA. Below is what I wrote after Leslie & I visited you, with a mention of Rouge-Bleu.

- Greg

Taking wing, and taking heart

By Gregory Dennis

They say traveling overseas broadens your horizons. This may be true. But what it really does is open you up inside.
I’m fortunate enough to have been overseas twice in recent months, to Italy in March and to France earlier this month. When I reflect on those experiences, I don’t see sunsets and mountain peaks. If anything, I regret missing the Vermont sunsets and the greening of the peaks while I was gone.
Instead, I feel openings in my heart -- connections to old friends with whom I traveled and new friends I made along the way; to places where life is slower and saner, where old buildings and old people are good things; where time passes slowly, rather than so hurriedly that it hurts.
When Judy, my oldest friend in the world, proposed last fall that I join her and her husband, Pat, on a March tour of the Italian hill towns in Umbria, it took about two minutes for me to say yes. The dollar was still relatively strong, my consulting business was going great guns, and I knew that by March I would need a break.
When March rolled around, the dollar had been knocked to its knees, my business and cash flow had slowed to a crawl, and I was looking for work projects to keep me busy.
Another demonstration of the wisdom of buying vacation plane tickets well in advance, so you can’t easily back out of your plans.
Ahead of meeting Judy and Pat, I coordinated three days in Tuscany with longtime friends Tom and Susie, who would be visiting their son and daughter at the Middlebury College program in Florence.
On the back end, post-Umbria, I arranged to meet two friends who are Middlebury College faculty -- Pieter Broucke and Ilaria Brancholi-Busdraghi – in Rome where they are on academic sabbatical.

* * *

I won’t bore you with a blow-by-blow, pasta-by-pasta description of Italy. Suffice it to say that there’s no way to adequately understand how good Italian food is until you’ve tasted it in a curbside café in Rome, near a 2000-year-old statue where a street musician is playing a mournful sax version of “The Way You Look Tonight.”
And the next time Pieter Broucke takes a sabbatical in Rome to write a book about the Pantheon, make sure you look him up to ask for a personal tour. I can highly recommend him as a guide, both to the Pantheon on which he is a recognized authority, and to the nearby gelato shop.
It wasn’t just the gelato that provided a religious experience.
I was raised in a small New York town filled with Italian-American Catholics. But it took being in Italy to open me to the spiritual dimension of Catholicism, all but buried beneath 2000 years of ridiculous rules and regulations.
Alessandro Gullo, our guide for five days in Umbria, proved to be not only a knowledgeable and entertaining travel companion, but also a doorway into what makes a modern Italian Catholic click. His introduction to the town of Assisi brought to life the gentle St. Francis’s love of nature and of all souls.
There was another taste of true religion waiting when I arrived in Rome on the morning of Palm Sunday. My bed-and-breakfast happened to be near St. Peter’s Square. I deposited my bags and wandered over for a look.
Though it was more than an hour after the Pope’s appearance, the square was still thronged with more than 50,000 believers. There were priests from Ireland, nuns from
Africa and the Philippines, schoolchildren from Germany, believers in wheelchairs and Mercedes. Their sense of communion with the miracles of life and death was palpable, and filled my eyes with gentle tears.

* * *

By early his month, my consulting business had slowed even further. The dollar was positively groveling at the feet of the euro. Gas was nearing $4 a gallon in Vermont and $10 a gallon in Europe.
I could wait for clients to call as I sat around my office here. Or I could give them my cellphone number in France and wait for them to call while I had another crème café in Aix-en-Provence.
In for a dime, in for a euro, I always say.
Taking up a longtime friend’s offer to come visit, I took advantage of the lower fares out of Montreal and hopped over to Marseille.
My friend and I visited a small new winery where old Grenache and Carignan vines are being brought back to life on a side road in the Cote-du-Rhone region. There, Jean-Marc and Kristin Espinasse are making tasty wines from organically grown grapes (www.rouge-bleu.com).
He’s French. She’s from Arizona and the author of the book Words in a French Life and the French word-a-day blog. Amid the gusty mistral winds, they’ve carved out a life that seemed the French equivalent of going back to the land in Vermont. Except the wine is a lot better than what you can buy in jugs at the general store.
We continued on to the hill town of Grignan, where other friends, Maurice and Genevieve, have for decades had a lavender farm. On their patio under a large plane tree, we lunched on Provencale lamb and two vegetable dishes. As tasty as those were, I have to say that the highlight was the wine Maurice so generously pulled from his cave – first a 1992 Burgundy and then a Chateauneuf-de-Pape.
My French is nonexistent. But my “Merci, Maurice, merci beaucoup!” was enthusiastically sincere.

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[Rédigé par:Rouge-Bleu from Arizona]

JM,

We were thrilled to get the first shipment and shared the 1st bottle of DRB with dear friends(she just became a Dr. and it was their 34th wedding anniversary).DRB was PERFECTLY fitting to the event! They love France and great wine especially when shared with good friends. As we drank each last drop, I was taken back to my time last OCT at DRB as we cut/smashed the grapes and what fun it was to be a part of it! I am so thankful you are realizing your dream JM (and RB!) and much courage to you in the weeks ahead!
Always in my heart! Rouge-Bleu from AZ

[Rédigé par:Kathy]

Jean-Marc and Kristin

Once again, it was great to meet you last month after following your adventures for the last couple of years. My daughter enjoyed the visit as well and we all loved the wine. Salut. Randy, Kathy and Lindsay

[Rédigé par:Kathy]

Jean-Marc and Kristin

Once again, it was great to meet you last month after following your adventures for the last couple of years. My daughter enjoyed the visit as well and we all loved the wine. Salut. Randy, Kathy and Lindsay

[Rédigé par:Kathy]

Jean-Marc and Kristin

Once again, it was great to meet you last month after following your adventures for the last couple of years. My daughter enjoyed the visit as well and we all loved the wine. Salut. Randy, Kathy and Lindsay

[Rédigé par:Jennifer]

Well, the insult to our President made me eager to respond to let all of your friends know that I am a supporter of this President, but I also speak French (having studied in college for 3 years), adore France and the French, have a crush on Johnny Hallyday as both actor and singer, and I adore good wines. I was sorry I couldn't make it to Houston to meet you when you were there. I would love to know if you have a presence in the Dallas area so that I might try your wine. By the way, I am proud of the French for once again electing a Conservative, meaning that much of what our media said about French and American relations were strictly told from the Liberals point of view(in both countries).;-)

[Rédigé par:Elizabeth Lopez]

I got my bottle of Rouge-Bleu the other day, and ever since (three days now) I've had one glass to savor each evening. I truly think it's one of the best wines I've ever had -- as well as being fun to drink and thinking of you guys as friends of mine that I've never met.

The bottle itself cost me $19 something and the shipping was $17 something. Worth every penny. I told my friend about how delicious it is and when she gets back from vacation, we're going to go together to order 6 bottles, thinking that the shipping would be comparatively less per bottle and we'll have three bottles each to savor.

I cannot thank you enough for the delicious experience not only of drinking the wine itself but for allowing me to be a part of the entire enterprise experience.

Blessings to both you and Kristin