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Great Domaines Tasting
CLASS OVERVIEW
Champagne, white Burgundies, Bandol (Provence) Rosé and Italian reds from Piedmont and Tuscany. An evening of exquisite wines from some of the world's greatest regions with Guy Harcourt-Wood of Great Domaines and food prepared by Liam Tomlin to match them.
Guy speaks about wine in an easy unpretentious manner that educates rather than intimidates, just the style to help participants really understand and get into these interesting wines, without taking everything too seriously.
To book, call Rachel on 021 422 01 28 or email her at info@chefswarehouse.co.za.
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THE ESTATES
Run by brothers Benoit and Jean-Baptiste Bachelet, Domain Jean-Claude Bachelet produces Burgundies that are pure in style, perfectly balanced, made from their 9.5 hectares with vines on average 40 years old.
Chateau Pibarnon makes seductive, aromatic and noble-structured wines from their farm high atop La Colline du Télégraphe in Bandol, a region that gets 300 days of sunshine a year and is known for rose.
Elio Grasso in Monforte d'Alba, Piedmont, vinifies each vineyard block separately and aims not to invent anything new, but to simply comply with the best in tradition and work of their predecessors. A small winery making big waves.
A fifth-generation family grower located in Ambonnay, Montagne de Reims, Marguet Champagne produces organic wines not due to any ideology other than it producers better grapes and thus better wines. Champagnes of finesse and unquestionable pedigree - taste for yourself.
Felsina vineyards lie in the Chianti Classico region in Tuscany it's climate and soils show the character of the valley through the liveliness and elegance of their esteemed and distinctive wines.
THE WINES
2004 Marguet Pere et Fils Champagne, France
2008 Puligny Montrachet, Domaine Jean-Claude Bachalet, Burgundy, France
2008 Chassagne-Montrachet, 'Les Macharelles,' Domaine Jean-Claude Bachalet, Burgundy, France
2009 Rose, Chateau Pibarnon, Bandol, France
2007 Chianti Classico, Felsina, Tuscany, Italy
2007 Barbera d'Alba, 'Vigna Martina,' Elio Grasso, Piedmont, Italy
2001 Vin Santo, Felsina, Tuscany, Italy