Kermit Lynch Wine Merchants
“The fine black fabric of her blouse might have been diaphonous, but a look long enough to say for sure would have been prying.”
HEIDELBERG DISTRIBUTING PRESENTS:
KERMIT LYNCH WINE MERCHANTS
“We are familiar with the values of intellectual dexterity and physical vitality. We have seen bewilderments worthy of Buster Keaton. We have been known to enjoy watching a Bandol rose dance like Baryshnikov. When travelling through the Languedoc, we dare to recite ‘that if mankind and human history were swept away the Comédie Humaine would be a perfectly adequate substitute for them.’ On occassion, we begin sentences with the presupposition that Rene Descartes, in his search for knowledge ‘in myself or the great book of the world’ (…through the philosophical exploration of Caps Lock; ‘when in doubt’…), discovered the necessity of a friend in the world. We enjoy discussing how few names fit easily into headlines like ‘Ott’; how Mr. Moore’s features in repose rather resemble those of Orson Welles; how the best thing a man can be is ‘passable’; and how a good story and a good laugh are essential to the Wine Industry. And most importantly, with the candour of a child, we believe in our responsibility to write about it, and to write about it very well. In the excavation of character traits, here you may discover at the very least a few that help qualify the distribution of Kermit Lynch Wine Merchants in Kentucky as an honour and pleasure that we intend to pursue for many years to come.”
Domaine — Appellation — Producer
FRANCE
ALSACE
“He still has humility, still has a sense of wonder, and is still capable of self-criticism. He is a seeker and a perfectionist.”
Domaine Meyer-Fonne – Felix Meyer
Domaine Ostertag — Andre Ostertag
BEAUJOLAIS
“It even serves to remind us of the first time man tasted fermented grape juice and decided it was an accident of nature worth pursuing.”
Guy Breton — Morgon — Guy Breton
Domaine de la Voute des Crozes — Cote de Brouilly – Nicole Chanrion
Jean Foillard — Morgon — Jean et Agnes Foillard
Domaine Cedric Vincent — Beaujolais — Cedric Vincent
BORDEAUX
“I checked the thermometor.”
“I like to taste through a cellar, several barrels, several vintages, appraise the character of the winemaker, listen to his appreciation of his own wine, look at his terrain, try to get a feel of what is going on there. Why does he do it the way he does it? I want to discuss the treatment of the wine at the all-important moment of the bottling. Will it be filtered? By what method? How severely? Is it filtered because he wants to, or because he feels he has to? By the same token, it is important that winemakers hear from those of us who are not afraid of a natural wine.”
Chateau de Bellevue – Lussac St. Emilion
BURGUNDY
“The word truffieres comes from truffes, black truffles.”
Domaine Bizot — Vosne-Romanee — Jean Yzes Bizot
Domaine Bouvier — Marsannay — Regis Bouvier
Domaine Buisson — St. Romain — Christophe Buisson
Bruno Colin — Chassagne-Montrachet — Bruno Colin
Gachot-Monot – Cote de Nuits Villages — Damien Gachot
Domaine Pierre Guillemot — Savigny les Beaune — Pierre et Jean Pierre Guillemot
Francois Jobard — Meursault — Francois et Marie Claire Jobard
Roland Lavantureux — Chablis & Petit Chablis — Roland et Brigitte Lavantureux
Comtesse Bernard de Cherisey — Puligny Montrachet, Meursault — Laurent Martelet
Domaine Vincent — Santenay & Auxey-Duresses — Jean-Marc Vincent
CHAMPAGNE
“To come down among this brotherhood
Dwelling for ever underground,
Silent, contemplative, round and sound,
Each one old and brown with mould,
But filled to the lips with the ardour of youth,
With the latent power and love of truth,
And with virtues fervent and manifold.”
Veuve Fourny — Champagne Cote Blanc — Charles Fourny
CORSICA
“Tino Rossi Singin’, Drinkin’ Mariani, Good to the Last Drop, Leave Some Sediment for Me”
Domaine Leccia — Patrimonio — Yves Leccia
Domaine Maestracci – E Prove — Michel Raoust
LANGUEDOC
“At nine in the morning they speak with the pomp of an Irish poet after he’s had a few.”
Domaine d’Aupilhac — Montpeyroux — Sylvain Fadat
Chateau La Roque — Pic St. Loup — Jacques Figuette
Mas Gabinele — Faugeres — Thierry Rodriguez
Ch. Fontanes — Vin de Pays d’Oc — Cyriaque Rozier
St. Martin de la Garrigue – Cot. Du Languedoc — Jean-Claude et Marie Zabalia
LOIRE
“They blew up the bridge, which Balzac called ‘one of the finest monuments of French architecture,’ and with it went the water lines into the city.”
Chateau D’Epire – Savennieres — Luc Bizard
Catherine & Didier Champalou — Vouvray — Didier et Catherine Champalaou
Domaine Grandes Perrieres — Sancerre — Jerome Gueneau
Domaine de Reuilly — Reuilly — Denis Jamain
Domaine Janvier — Jasnieres — Pascal Janvier
Chateau de la Fessardiere — Muscadet — Estelle Sauvion
PROVENCE
“Provence is good for the psyche.”
Domaine Gros Nore – Bandol — Alain Pascal
Clos Ste. Magdeleine — Cassis — G. Sack-Zafiropulo
RHONE
“Ask about her garden.”
“Seve, the sap or lifeblood of a plant, conveys an impression of vigor, of intensity.”
Domaine Achard-Vincent — Clairette de Die — Achard-Vincent
EURL Coteaux d’Avignon — KL Cotes du Rhone – Monsieur Chudzinski
Auguste Clape — Cornas — Auguste et Piere Clape
Philippe Faury – St. Joseph — Philippe Faury
Domaine Gallety — Cotes du Vivrais — Alain Gallety
Robert Jasmin — Cote-Rotie — Patrick Jasmin
Domaine Gramenon — Cotes du Rhone — Michele Laurent
Domaine Catherine le Goeuil — Cairanne — Catherine Le Goeuil
Domaine de Durban – Muscat Bd Venise — Leydier et Fils
Domaien de Durban – Beaume de Venise and Gigondas — Leydier et Fils
Domaine de Durban — KL Vin de Table Rouge & Blanc — Leydier et Fils
Domaine de la Gramiere — Cotes du Rhone — Amy & Matt Kling Lillard
Domaine de la Charbonniere – Chateauneuf du Pape — Michel & Mireille Maret
Domaine du Joncier — Lirac — Marine Roussel
Domaine Rousset — Crozes-Hermitage — Robert Rousset
SAVOIE
“I sought her by the incense-tree/ And in the aloes, and in the firs…”
A&M Quenard — Andre & Michel Quenard — Chignin
SOUTHWEST
“…Little by little the salon was filled with extraordinary figures, such as are found only in the etchings of Callot or the aquatints of Goya; a pêle-mêle of rags and tatters, bestial and human shapes; at any other time I should have been uneasy in such company, but there was nothing menacing in these monstrosities. It was cunning, not malice, which sparkled in the eye. Only in a grin of good humor could one discover the uneven fangs and pointed teeth.”
“Brillat-Savarin noted two features which distinguish man from beast:
1. Fear of the future. 2. Desire for fermented liquors.”
Domaine Etxegaraya — Irouleguy — Robert Rousset
ITALY
“It is curious to find our poet [Petrarch] out of humour with Flanders on account of the high price of wine, which was not an indigenous article. In the latter part of his life, Petrarch was certainly one of the most abstemious of men; but, at this period, it would seem that he drank good liquor enough to be concerned about its price.”
Cantine Valpane — Monferrato (Piedmonte) — Pietro Arditi
Villa di Geggiano — Chianti — Andrea Bandinelli
La Viarte — Friuli — Giulio Ceschi
Giamello — Barbaresco — Silvio Giamello
Canonica a Cerreto — Chianti — Egido & Marco Lorenzo
Aldo Marenco – Piedmonte — Aldo Marenco
Corte Gardoni – Bianco Custoza & Bardolino — Gianni Piccoli
Guido Porro – Barolo — Guido Porro
Sommariva — Prosecco — Sommariva
Tintero — Moscato di Alba — Elivo Tintero
Contact:
Brad L. Nichols
Fine-Wine Buyer
Heidelberg Distributing of Northern Kentucky
101 W. 13th Street
Covington, KY 41011
E-mail: brad.lee.nichols@gmail.com
Website: www.winesutra.com