Merci

With Joanne in the Houston wine dinner at the great Brasserie Max and Julie

Dear wine lovers,

"Merci" might be an easy way but it is the right word to thank all of you who came to visit us during our February US events. Kristi and I have been so touched by your kindness and I have been so proud to pour our wines for the first time.

We are back to our dear vines and wines which have evolved with warm (not to say hot) weather. Vine is in tears, which means I don't have much time to finish pruning and our "living" wines are also evolving. Babies ladybugs are here (can you find it here ?) and just before we left, we have put some green compost in our old vines. As for the wines, the Dentelle cuvée will be bottled next week, on a fruit day and raising moon which are the best conditions on the lunar calendar to bottle wine.

And, by the way and even if we know well how relative this is, I wanted to tell you that our Dentelle just got a "silver" reward at the National Agricultural fair of Paris.

Here are the photos and an article of our tour. We will be back in April in NYC and surely at more places in the near future.

Seattle at Abraxus book store article + pictures
Seattle at French American Chamber of Commerce + other pictures
Portland at Cork wine store and Diana and Neil's wine dinner pictures
San Francisco at Palio d'Asti pictures
Los Angeles at Wine House pictures
Phoenix at Vincent farmer's market pictures
Phoenix at Heidi and Doug Stiteler pictures
Houston at Brasserie Max and Julie pictures 

Cheers,

Jean-Marc Espinasse - Domaine Rouge-Bleu

PS : As I am just about to send this post, I just receive an email from Jennifer in OR with who I have been emailing. Her post on Rouge-Bleu is so revealing and so true that I can't help mentioning it to you here. "Merci" Jennifer

Comments

[Diane Scott]

*SNIFF* Won't you two ever come to Tallahassee??? After all, it IS the hottest, most humid city in the State of Florida and, perhaps, in all of these United States!! It would be fun! Oh well, I guess not... But we are definately looking forward to our case of Dentelle and we pray to the lunar goddess, the ladybug goddess, and the fruit goddess that they smile benignly upon your upcoming bottling!

Cheers,

Diane Scott

[Jennifer in OR]

Congratulations on the silver award at the Paris Agriculture Fair! That is a great honor.

[lou bogue]

Congrates on your silver award and your trip to the states and much good luck on next weeks drawing of dentelle.

[Matt Urdan]

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