Tasting Maison Lorgeril
My good friend Frank Flugge, who is the export director for Maison Lorgeril, asked me if l would conduct a webinar and tasting for their American sales team. This meant that rather a lot of bottles arrived at home in London, as Frank had planned quite an extensive tasting with wines from all their various Languedoc estates. The family home is the Château de Pennautier in Cabardès. I first visited this property at the end of the 1980s and met Françoise de Lorgeril. At the time it seemed to me like a sleeping beauty, an elegant château with a long history, and badly in need of some TLC. Things changed when Nicolas and his wife Miren took over. I have not met Nicolas, but Miren is irrepressibly energetic. When l was researching The Wines of the Languedoc, l asked so many people what had changed in the previous decade or so. Miren’s reply exuded enthusiasm. "We are rediscovering that we have fantastic terroir. People now...
