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Ken Schramm

Ken Schramm
I have taken some delight in a couple of Loire cab francs recently:

The first was the 2009 Domaine Guion Bourgueil Cuvee Prestige. Really clean, food friendly and very accessible right now. Gone before I knew it.

The second was the 2013 Saget La Perrière Marie de Beauregard Chinon. We had this with Thanksgiving dinner at my daughter's place in South Bend. It outshone the bottle of 2015 Pavillon de Chavannes Cote de Brouilly 'Cuvee des Ambassades' Beaujolais handily. A second bottle drank equally well earlier this month. I have been impressed with Loire francs and their ability to show well across a variety of maturity levels, and they are coming to rival Gamay and Pinot in quantity in my cellar. Sarah got it at City Wide Liquors, which has turned out to be a pretty cool little shop (she's working on her doctorate in Philosophy at Notre Dame, which could generate an entire separate thread, I'm sure). I picked up my first bottle of Steve's Rocks and Gravel that I have seen in the Midwest at that shop. After all I have read here, I am anxious to open that.

Finally, a 2012 Patrice Rion Bourgogne went really well with this evening's steak. Not particularly expansive on the nose, but solidly red fruited and alluring, pleasantly slurpable, typistic, and complementary without being in any way obtuse. A completely poundable bottle that will be gone before we retire for the evening.
 
I can't recall hearing of Patrice Rion. A quick google doesn't appear to mention any relation to the excellent producer, Daniel Rion.

. . . . Pete
 
originally posted by Peter Creasey:
I can't recall hearing of Patrice Rion. A quick google doesn't appear to mention any relation to the excellent producer, Daniel Rion.
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Daniel Rion created his estate in 1955 (and retired in 1995). In the late 1970s his three sons joined the domaine. Patrice, the oldest, started making a few wines on his own in 1990. He quit the family domaine in 2000, tired of squabbling with his brothers.

Announcement of Patrice's departure: click
Dom. Patrice Rion output over time: click
 
originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
originally posted by Peter Creasey:
I can't recall hearing of Patrice Rion. A quick google doesn't appear to mention any relation to the excellent producer, Daniel Rion.
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Daniel Rion created his estate in 1955 (and retired in 1995). In the late 1970s his three sons joined the domaine. Patrice, the oldest, started making a few wines on his own in 1990. He quit the family domaine in 2000, tired of squabbling with his brothers.

Announcement of Patrice's departure: click
Dom. Patrice Rion output over time: click
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I just had a look back to see where I got it, and it was filling out a case to get some Tribouley Orchis to try based on an endorsement here. I knew the Rion name, and there were some pretty complementary web comments to make the roll of the dice feel less cavalier. As I mentioned, this was no major investment, but I'm glad it did not turn out to be a waste of mid-week dollars, either. Appears there's a good chance the underlying fruit was solid. I'm happy I have a few more bottles.

It was under a Stelvin cap, which bears out what your links indicated about his wanting to change up some practices, Jeff. I can't say as I thought it hurt the wine at all. We're going through discussion about closures at the meadery, and this is a germane data point.
 
2005 Thivin Cote de Brouilly. Pretty good out of the gates, but on night 2, weirdly deep and substantial.

I don't like to call a wine profound, so I won't say it was profound. But of such stature that I had to stop everything for about two minutes and exclude all thought not directly related to what I was tasting.

2002 Huet Petillant, 2nd release. We open a bottle every year on my son's Birthday, and this year's was a delicious, delicious bottle.
 
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