Jancis Robinson, famed wine critic and author of the Oxford Companion to Wine, has picked our Jonc Blanc Les Sens de Fruit from Bergerac as one of her top “100 sure-fire reds.” Isabelle Carles and Franck Pascal make beautiful biodynamic wine in Bergerac, an area known by wine professionals as a “Bordeaux clone”, because of […]
Interview with Pascaline Lepeletier, sommelier at Rouge Tomate, part 1.
This is an interview conducted with Pascaline Lepeletier, the sommelier at Rouge Tomate. The original Rouge Tomate was opened in Brussels in 2001, and the New York version opened in 2008. The philosophy of the restaurant is S.P.E.(Sanitas Per Escam, health through food), and the menu features a staggering array of local, seasonal, healthful, and […]
An interview with Christian Binner
This is an interview conducted with winemaker Christian Binner, that was featured as part of Saignee’s 32 days of Natural Wine series. It was originally conducted in French over email, and is translated to English here. To start, can you tell us a little bit about your domaine and how you make your wine? Domaine […]