Amy is a great american woman who started her own wine estate with her husband: Domaine de la Gramière.
She recently came to Beaucastel with our friend Thierry Desseauve and posted about it on her blog.

PERRIN & FILS was in

Valencia

The Vinoelite is a great event during the Louis Vuitton Cup, with a common stand and a prestige tasting for selected members of the press and of the Institute of Masters of Wine.

Primum Familiae Vini members attending those events and their wines that were served:

• Hubert de Billy - Pol Roger Cuvée Sir Winston Churchill 1996
• Frédéric J. Drouhin - Beaune Clos des Mouches Blanc 2004
• Mireilla Torres - Mas La Plana 2003
• Alessia Antinori - Solaia 2003
• Priscilla Incisa della Rocchetta - Sassicaia 2000

• Thomas Perrin

  - Château de Beaucastel Hommage à Jacques Perrin 1995
• Dominique Garcia sitting in for Philippine de Rothschild - Château Mouton Rothschild 1998
• Pablo Alvarez - Vega Sicilia Unico 1996
• Egon Müller - Scharzhofberger Eiswein 1996
• Etienne Hugel - Gewurztraminer Vendange Tardive 2001
• Dominic Symington - Dow’s 1985 Vintage Port

Excellent interview of Marc Perrin on Graperadio.com.

A good way to understand our philosophy with PERRIN & FILS by learning more about the Southern Rhone Valley.

Listen the interview here.

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Château de Beaucastel, Hommage à Jacques Perrin 1989 Châteauneuf-du-Pape

score: 19,5

Really excellent and electric in its appeal it’s so thrilling. Extremely rich nose – very thick, sweet, positively clambers over the palate. So sweet it’s almost like black cherry jam – not a wine for the faint-hearted, but certainly a testament to skilful winemaking and vine growing in the southern Rhône - an exceptional expression of this exceptional vintage. To be sipped rather than glugged.

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Seen today on the wine spectator's website in an interview of Guy Goldstein (sommelier of Paris-Nice and several other restaurants in NYC, great guy who purchased the JF Kennedy collection a few years ago):

WS: What’s in your personal cellar?
GG: I have a private cellar which consists of about 7,000 bottles. My personal favorites are Château Lafite 1900, Romanée-Conti 1945 and Beaucastel 1962.

the interview is here

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The first floral bud has just started in our vineyard announcing the beginning of the springtime!

On the picture, an old Grenache from Chateau de Beaucastel.