The excitement is beginning to build as an upcoming wine-trip to France is right around the corner…ten days away. I’m looking forward to this because I am about to travel through some wine regions that produce many of my very favorite wines. We will be visiting chateaux and domaines in the South and Northern Rhône Valley, continuing north to parts of Burgundy, wandering around Paris a couple of days and ending the trip back down south in Marseilles for a few days.

 The first part of the trip will be fast and furious, seeing a number of our top providers of Rhône  and Burgundy wines, such as Chateau Cabrieres, Domaine Paul Pillot, Domaine Renee Lequin-Colin and Chateau de Maligny among others. These excellent producers of Rhône and Burgundy wines will open my eyes to these extremely important regions of the wine world…can’t wait. The last few days will be spent seeing France at much more leisurely pace, taking in all the sights, sounds and flavors that Paris and Marseilles have to offer. I will be sending my next couple of posts from and about this French trip, so until then…au revoir.

Ken Amendola, Wine Supervisor, N. Florida

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