"Everything is getting bigger. La Dive Bouteille had a spacious new home in the troglodite caves of
Caves Ackerman;
Salon Les Penitantes covered two floors. The dinner after Les Vins
Anonymes - arguably the smallest of the tastings - exerted such a
gravitational social pull that I wondered how all the attendees would
ever fit in the Collegiale Saint-Martin. (I hadn't been tempted to go to
this year's dinner, because I'd heard last year's event had all the
organisation of the Katrina response. But perhaps I'll go next year.)"
...
" if we agree that natural winemaking favors the inherently communal
concept of terroir, rather than the more individualist, auteur-focused
winemaker culture that obtains in most modernised New World regions,
then we should admit that European natural wine buyers, and in turn
their clientele, can learn very little from the isolated examples of one
winemaker or one importer."
from
Not Drinking Poison in Paris
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