It's always a great treat to have the owners and or the winemakers come and taste their wines at Cleveland Park Wines & Spirits ( www.clevelandparkwine.com, sales@clevelandparkwine.com, 202-363-4265 3423 Conn. Ave. N.W. Washington D.C. 2008 ) and this was no exception at all! We had already been selling really well both the Pouilly Fuisse white burgundy as well as the Saint-Veran. Both are owned and run by Monique and Jean-Paul. The Pouilly Fuisse 9 DOMAINE LES VIEUX MURS - we currently have the 2006, $27.99 11/1/08 ) is managed by Jean-Paul while the Saint-Veran ( DOMAINE de FUSSIACUS, we sell currently the 2005 $23.99 11/1/08 ) by Monique. Both are estate-bottled wines. Their son is also involved and he came to see us later by himself when Alphonse Mellot was scheduled to taste in our store one evening. His pictures have already been included under that tasting.
Here are some pictures from our marvelous in-store wine-tasting of both the Pouilly Fuisse as well as the Saint-Veran. Laurent Givry ( president of Elite selections with Cindy ) was at the tasting as well on this Friday evening. I hope you get some of the chemistry of the evening in these pictures. It definitely was an animated, fun time with some real warmth and interaction between Monique and Jean-Paul and our customers. Lots of Franglais was spoken to bridge the gap between the two languages. Between Laurent and me and everyones'patience and help we survived/thrived marvelously this wonderful evening of three hours from 5-8 PM.
Before I go any further I do want to mention that this was a duo-wine-tasting with two separate yet connected wine-tastings going on simultaneously side-by-side. We also had a Greek wine owner/maker pouring his family's wines. I have included here pictures of both wine-tastings as well as a number of customers that stopped to taste. They are some of our favorite customers and I wanted to get pictures of them to include at some point just like this. Imagine that?!?
There are a number of pictures this time where someone has their eyes closed and I included them anyway. I did this because their is a lot of joy and their faces do radiate contentment even though they may have their eyes closed for that split-second. Oh well. Hope you like them anyway.
I found the pictures of Monique and Jean-Paul's son when he did his tasting here later with Alphonse Mellot of Sancerre, importer Laurent Givry and owner Arya Campbell of the California Laurel Glen Winery. They are all in these pictures. Cheers, more to follow soon. TONY
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