Taste Vouvray and Bourgueil with Catherine and Pierre Breton, Saturday, March 11th

3/7/17 -

Please join us this Saturday as we welcome Pierre and Catherine Breton to Chambers Street! Since 1985, the Bretons have been producing some of the most elegant and delicious wines in the Loire Valley, with great farming and brilliant winemaking and with a convivial attitude that has gained them friends everywhere. Their early conversion to organic farming and biodynamic methods helped inspire vignerons all over France and beyond to join the movement to a more sane agriculture and natural methods of winemaking. 1985 was their first vintage, with their organic and biodynamic certifications beginning in 1990. In 1992, they produced their first cuvée "sans-soufre," the vibrant Bourgueil "Nuits d"Ivresse."  In 1999 the Bretons organized one of the first group tastings to celebrate the natural wine movement, "La Dive Bouteille," held in a cellar in Bourgueil with 40 winemakers from around France, which has grown into an important international event. But of course it's the superb quality of their wines that has earned the respect of consumers and wine professionals around the world - both for their elegant and ageworthy cuvées such as the Bourgueil "les Perrières" and the Chinon "Saint-Louans" but also for the pure delight of their "vins de soif" which unpretentiously encourage the enjoyment of the social beverage that is wine. We're proud to welcome the Bretons to Chambers Street this Saturday, and we hope you will take this opportunity to obtain some of these very special wines, either for near term enjoyment or long-term cellaring, featuring a limited re-release of the superb 2010 Bourgueil "Les Perrières!"