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August 1: A Mid-Summer Tour of France
France is very much on our minds this week. As extreme heat and wildfires threaten communities across the southwest, including areas near Bordeaux, our thoughts are with the people, vineyards and landscapes affected.
As August begins, our tasting takes us through four very different corners of France. We start high in the Alps with a crisp, mineral Jacquère from Savoie, travel west to Touraine for a lively, peppery rosé, continue to Burgundy for an elegant Pinot Noir, and finish in Margaux with a beautifully mature 2016 Bordeaux.
It is a wonderful French lineup for midsummer, bright and refreshing at the start, then increasingly layered, savory and complex.
2023 André & Michel Quenard Chignin: $23


Imported by Kermit Lynch, this crisp Alpine white made of 100% Jacquère, offers ripe peach, nectarine and citrus layered over mouthwatering limestone minerality.




