“In good hands is the wine: the winemaker’s role in the development,” were the words of Michel Tardieu, one of the most prestigious French négociant-éleveur thanks to its selection of wines from the Rhone Valley, in the tasting held in Monvínic under.
Monvínic is a center of culture disseminator international benchmark wine, which has been considered the best wine bar in the world by wine critic from The Wall Street Journal. A pioneering space, created by Sergi Ferrer-Salat, who was born with the dream of opening the doors wide to a unique selection of wines from around the world. Therefore, the winery is the backbone and its rationale; Monvínic is also a wine bar, a room for tastings and lectures, a documentation center with all the books, magazines, guides and auction catalogs that are now referred unavoidable in the cosmos of wine club “Friends of Monvínic”, a wine shop where you can buy the thousands of examples of wine from wine regions around the world that form the letter Monvínic, and a culinary space supported in product quality and traditional recipes, cleverly updated by Chef Sergi de Meià, 2009 National Award to Young Chef of the Year by the Catalan Academy of Gastronomy.
On tasting, Tardieu explained his idea of wine with whole clusters and showed the value that gives the scrape winemakers to work when used as a component in the production of wine. This use involves, as Tardieu, a great respect for the terroir and the raw material. It also believes that the use of scratch makes all the difference: gives energy, diversity and freshness to the wines, also recommended not using new wood and personality to the wine remaining.
In this tasting “technique”, the audience could appreciate these nuances in the twelve selected wines: France Beaujolais Fleurie Clos de Mez The Dot 2007; France Cave d’Embres & Castelmaure J’ai mauvaise réputation Corbières 2011; SPAIN Priorat Mas Alta La Basseta 2010, Jimenez-Landi SPAIN Méntrida Ataulfos 2009; France Tardieu Laurent Chateauneuf-du-Pape Cuvée Spéciale 2010; France Tardieu Laurent Gigondas 2010; France Domaine Jamet Côte Rôtie 2007 Cornas Clape Auguste France 2005, France Bel Air Marquis d’Aligre Margaux 2000 , France Domaine Dujac Gevrey-Chambertin 1er Cru Aux Combottes 2006; France Confuront-Cotetidot Vosne-Romanée 1er Cru Les Suchots 2006 Clos des Lambrays FRANCE 1996. All these wines have the common denominator scrape use in winemaking.
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