Shout out for Terroir in SF

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BJ
It seems like it's been a while since I've seen anything about it, but we had a great time hanging out with Dagan and Luc last night. Got there early before things heated up and had great conversation about natural wine and its limits and pleasures. I've gotten really wary of natural wine honestly, but when they show like what they were pouring, I'm all in.
Had an array of things, everything terrific. Definitely a must visit moving forward when in SF - it had been a number of years. Reminded me of the wine we've had at Verre Vole.
 
Nice. So were they pouring new labels, or old stalwarts that remain solid? (If anything is solid - aside from deposits - about natural wine)
 
I just emailed them to get the list of what we had. It was stuff I mostly didn't recognize, except for a Caille Fay d'Homme (it's normal solid self) and a 2011 Wilfrid Rousse Clos de la Roche (really, really good, smoky). Those were the two most classic of what we had.
 
originally posted by BJ:
2011 Wilfrid Rousse Clos de la Roche
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Never heard of the producer so at first I assumed this was a hipster take on grand cru MSD!

But google quickly made sense of matters for me.
 
Oops, yeah, Chinon.

Wilfrid Rousse is one of the old timey producers but I don't see his stuff much around in the US at all.
 
originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:
originally posted by BJ:
Oops, yeah, Chinon.

Wilfrid Rousse is one of the old timey producers but I don't see his stuff much around in the US at all.
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Was or is imported by Savio Soares.
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According to their website, the current importer is Integrity Wines:

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integritywines.com

Also, I've become quite wary of restaurants that don't have some natural wines on their lists (for whatever the reason - sometimes they simply stock the industrial because of name recognition or ignorance). I let my dollars (well, now, Norwegian kroner or Euros) do the talking.
 
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