October 25, 2006
It all seems like a blur now, but vintage 2006 is officially over and all put to bed here at Scott Paul. Wow! What an amazing, wild ride it’s been. Huge kudos to our contractor Marty Knopf, who pulled off the impossible and managed to get our new facilities in amazing shape just in the nick of time. He is one in a million, and none of this would have been possible without him…
I am so excited to welcome everyone into our new home and celebrate the harvest at our upcoming “La Paulée de Carlton” event on December 4th – please plan to join us. As of this moment there are still a couple of seats available for the dinner – and of course everyone is welcome to join us for the open house from 11-4 that day. Please prepare to learn a traditional Burgundian drinking song or two…
My schedule is just about complete for my annual fall trip to Burgundy next month for the Hospices de Beaune auction, La Paulée, and all the festivities. I’ll also be tasting the 2005s from all of our Burgundy producers, as well as the new 2006s just in barrel, and I hope to put together agreements to add at least two more exciting producers to our Scott Paul Selections portfolio for next year. The 2005 wines appear to be outstanding – I’ll be trying to secure as large an allocation as I can for you, as well as attempting to keep the prices in line. Many producers will hike their prices significantly in a highly-regarded vintage likle ’05 – but I have reason to believe that our guys will be reasonable for the most part…
