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11.01.2008

1001 Verres

Finally having had our fill, we depart Vitiloire for a post-wine-tasting (and water-guzzling) breather back at the Hotel du Manoir. KP asks a smiling young man at one of the festival entrances if she can buy a Vitiloire wine poster; he tells us to come back at 7pm and he’ll give us one -- which he does.

At dinnertime we venture out and try 1001 Verres, yet another friendly wine bar on Place Gaston Paillhou near Les Halles, with a wide-ranging list beyond France. A chummy gang of oenophiles is hanging outside and they welcome us into a long, narrow space that’s stylish in a cosmopolitan-casual way.

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Bourgueil

Certain hierarchies become immediately apparent: Wines we taste are either (rarely) just okay, (mostly) very good, or (occasionally) truly exceptional, such as the entire portfolio of Jacky Blot, who operates vineyards in Bourgueil and in the chenin blanc heartlands of Montlouis and Vouvray. We focus our tasting on wines made with cabernet franc and chenin blanc (rather than sauvignon blanc and gamay), which helps us learn much more about these wines. We also learn about issues of concern to the vignerons, such as biodynamic agriculture and the use of new oak, still controversial in the Loire, where it is not traditional. In the food zone we sample two yummy baked goods from the booth of Briquet: a fouace with nuts, and an aromatic, rose-shaped pink bun scented with real floral essence of rose du Rivau.

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