Wine & Dine with the Burgundians!
In just a couple of days, two of our favorite producers from Burgundy will be arriving in Portland for a series of tastings and events all over the Northwest. Make plans now to join us at the winery in Carlton on Saturday, August 14th from 12-5, for a special tasting with Thiébault Huber of Domaine Huber-Verdereau in Volnay, and Patrick & Catherine Essa of Domaine Buisson-Charles in Meursault. Tasting fee is $15 for this event, and we are looking forward to seeing you here!
Then that evening at 6:30, you’re invited to join us all for a winemaker dinner at Farm to Fork in Dundee, featuring the Huber-Verdereau and Buisson-Charles wines, and of course some Scott Paul goodies too. Seats at the dinner are $100 each, all-inclusive, and availability is limited. Email Kelly Karr to book your seats asap…
If you can’t make it out to wine country, join us all in Portland at Cork Wine Shop on N.E. Alberta this Friday afternoon from 4-7:30 - Thiébault and Patrick & Catherine will be on hand pouring a selection of their gorgeous wines…
Thiébault Huber
Thiébault Huber is one of Burgundy’s brightest rising stars. He was awarded the trophy for Burgundy’s best young winemaker a few years back, and his since been “discovered” by the major writers and critics who cover the region. The family estate of only 7.5 acres had been leased out to other producers for 20 years when Thièbault took it back at the end of the lease in 1994 while in his early 20s. He has since enlarged the estate with additions of small, strategically placed parcels in Volnay & Pommard, and now has over 15 acres under his control. Thièbault has become one of the leaders of the Biodynamic farming movement in Burgundy, and has been featured on a number of network broadcasts in France. He has twice been a featured winery at the International Pinot Noir Celebration here in Oregon, and is known to many of you as the producer of the fabulous Crémant de Bourgogne sparkling wine that has consistently been the most popular wine in the entire Scott Paul portfolio.
In the cellar with Patrick Essa at Buisson-Charles
Patrick & Catherine Essa are the 5th generation at the helm of Domaine Buisson-Charles, having officially taken over from Catherine’s father Michel as of the 2008 harvest. Patrick and Michel worked side by side for the past 15+ vintages, and the transition has been seamless as Michel starts his active “retirement”. The domaine is revered by Burgundy aficionados for their classic, intense, and wonderfully age-worthy Meursaults. Their prime old-vine holdings in the 1er Crus of Meursault Charmes, Goutte d’Or, Bouches-Chères and Cras produce some of Burgundy’s longest-lived whites, and their Meursault Vieilles Vignes bottling from five different parcels averaging 65+ years in age is one of the most complex examples you’ll find.
We hope you can join us at one or more of these upcoming special events with two of Burgundy’s best and brightest. Cheers!
