Antoine is the 5th generation winemaker at Chateau Fuisse in the Macon district of southern Burgundy. He was on tour this past February across the US promoting the wines. I was able to sit down with him for a few minutes and get some updates about where Ch Fuisse is right now and on the vintages being released.
Stephane Aviron is the partner and winemaker at Potel-Aviron, a producer of Cru Beaujolais wines. The wines are not your typical Beaujolais, though. These wines are concentrated and rich, do not use any carbonic maceration and are produced from older vines that produce intense, dark fruit. Quite tasty wines.
Nicolas and I have worked together several times over the past eight years. This year I took the opportunity to get him on tape for a few minutes. Here he tells us about the new vintages and his new projects.
Here is a short series of clips taken from the Erdener Treppchen Vineyard along the Mosel River in Germany.
Here is how crazy they get on a Saturday afternoon in Bernkastel, Germany.
This short clip was taken while standing about 3/4 of the way up the Erdener Treppchen Vineyard in the middle-Mosel winegrowing region of Germany. The clip begins looking at the Treppchen vineyard, then pans across the river with the village of Losenic in the distance, then directly across the river to the town of Erden with it farming feilds, and finally comes back across the Mosel looking towards the town of Urzig and the Wurzgarten Vineyard. Ernst Loosen is seen in the clip describing an an...