Recent content by David Lillie

Partners-In-Health Benefit Dinner in Memory of Joe Dressner, Sunday, October 28th. A number of years ago, Joe Dressner suggested to Chambers Street Wines that we use our wine events together to raise money for a charity that would provide quality health care to those in need around the world...

We just found 20 bottles in the CSW warehouse, 55 degree storage, real corks... Before the locals walk off with it muttering "...isn't this too old for a Beaujolais?" I thought I would would let it be known. SF Joe told me to...honest.

Speaking of Baudry, the 2007 Domaine bottling includes juice from a new parcel in Saint Louans (sandy soil on limestone - origin of some of the earthiest Chinons) as well as from the usual gravel plot in Cravant. The fruit is very complex and a bit softer and better balanced than the 2006...

Yes, there will probably be a few extra vintages of Pepiere/Briords arriving... No Coche-Dury please, we don't want to embarrass the Meursault producer.

Who's narrow...? No offense intended of course, I'm thinking of girth rather than commerciality...Marc is about as uncommercial as a winemaker can be.

But why did I choose a bigger horn? Speaking of compensation, these dinners appear to be too expensive so we'll inject 100 billion dollars of CSW bailout money to lower the price to $75. Losing money is this year's theme, anyway...

I also have no mucical talent which is why I'm selling wine. I've had two musical nightmares already this week... The CBS record is better, but it's all acutely embarassing. Very good tasting with Christian Ducroux in Regni - has anyone else encountered these wines recently?

Yeah, sorry, you know I was nervous, my first post and all...

Chambers Street Wines is sponsoring two heavily subsidised dinners, during whatever LDM is calling this year's winemaker tour. The first is with Marc Ollivier at Five Points Restaurant on Sunday, March 22nd @ 7:30. He will speak some English, sort of, and will pour 05 Briords, 02 Briords and 96...