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La Gramière on Tour

Posted on Friday, December 15, 2006 at 03:06PM by Registered CommenterCraig Camp in | Comments4 Comments

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La Gramière Côtes du Rhône, the new wine from our favorite winemaker bloggers in the Rhône, Amy Lillard and Matt Kling, is on its inaugural world release tour. Pictured here, I show a bottle of  La Gramière  around Oregon’s Willamette Valley and our vineyards at Anne Amie. However much I want to try a bottle of their new wine, as it is unfined and unfiltered I will give it a month or so to adjust to its new surrounding here in Oregon. Natural wines like La Gramière, which are produced with as little intervention as possible, require patience on the part of the consumer as their natural harmony is disrupted by the stress of travel. Just like you are blasted by jet lag when you travel back-and-forth over long distances, natural wines need time and rest to show their best. When the time is right I will share my comments on their new wine. However, I will certainly not “review” it as this wine is a statement of passion shared with us by Amy and Matt and this is to be respected at all costs as something all to rare in winemaking today.

Welcome to Oregon La Gramière!

(you can welcome La Gramière to your house by calling importer Kermit Lynch at 510.524.1524 )

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Reader Comments (4)

Any suggestions on how to get my hands on a few bottles? I'm outside of Kermit's shipping distribution!
December 18, 2006 | Unregistered CommenterLenn
Lenn - New York State shipping laws stink! I would contact Kermit's distributor in NYC. Perhaps they are bringing in a few cases.
December 18, 2006 | Registered CommenterCraig Camp
Met Amy & Matt at Coaltrain in Colorado Springs last night. Wonderful couple. Got the last bottle there autographed. Sorry, not parting with that one! They say that the 2006 is tasting very nice.
December 22, 2006 | Unregistered CommenterKCA
Pleased to find out that there are a few cases in the Portland,OR area. Contact D'Vine Wine,they are the Kermit distributor for this wine. Here's to a great marriage of place and vine!
December 30, 2006 | Unregistered CommenterGordon R.

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