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2024 Vin de Pays de Vaucluse Rouge

Selected by Kermit Lynch
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The KLWM staff takes great pleasure in tasting new vintages of our “Selected by” bottles. These wines may not carry the same bragging rights as Burgundy or Bandol, for example, but they are the bottles we drink more regularly. As such, murmurs of excitement and satisfaction echo throughout our offices and retail shop(s!) when the newest shipment of our favorite selection—and we all have a favorite—lands. The Vaucluse rouge happens to be mine, and is produced by the Leydier family of Domaine de Durban, whose Gigondas and Muscat often make appearances at my holiday tables. On weeknights, however, I turn to this easy-drinker full of dark fruit, black olive, and bramble. It’s light enough on its feet to serve with a chill, but still hearty enough to stand up to winter fare.

Allyson Noman

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Technical Information
Wine Type: red
Vintage: 2024
Bottle Size: 750mL
Blend: 55% Grenache, 20% Syrah, 15% Merlot, 10% Marselan
Country: France
Region: Southern Rhône
Producer: Selected by Kermit Lynch
Winemaker: The Leydier Family
Vineyard: 18 years, 3.5 ha
Soil: Clay, Limestone
Aging: Wine ages for 8 months in cuves before being bottled unfiltered
Farming: Lutte Raisonnée
Alcohol: 14.5%

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Every three or four months I would send my clients a cheaply made list of my inventory, but it began to dawn on me that business did not pick up afterwards. It occurred to me that my clientele might not know what Château Grillet is, either. One month in 1974 I had an especially esoteric collection of wines arriving, so I decided to put a short explanation about each wine into my price list, to try and let my clients know what to expect when they uncorked a bottle. The day after I mailed that brochure, people showed up at the shop, and that is how these little propaganda pieces for fine wine were born.—Kermit Lynch

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