Winemaker Dinner at Eulalie, NYC, Tuesday March 3rd

Champagne Drémont-Marroy
Château du Grand Bos
Cave Verdier-Logel

6:15 until…!

Chip and I love the Southwest of France.
Probably a romantic connection from our first ever trip before opening our first dream of a restaurant years ago.
This area actually inspired us to be the place to you, our cherished guests, that we still strive to be.

To be able to host theses thoughtful, sense of place, simply drinkable wines to you in our Tribeca home is as much a gift to me to enjoy as it is to offer it to you.

Wine Traditions of Virginia allowed us this treat, touring with 3 of their talented winemakers from France, representing Champagne, Loire and Bordeaux.

Do call me for details. We will keep seating very limited so that all can enjoy the fellowship with each other as well as the inspired dishes from Chip and his team to complement.

Reception and Canapes and Champagne
Coursed menu paired with Gamay, White and Red Bordeaux, and Champagne again!!

185.00 per person
Exclusive of tax and gratuity

–Chip and Tina

We are partnering with Cool Wine & Spirits for this event.

A Wine and Liquor (Spirits) store in 375b Canal St, New York, NY 10013

Lou Rochet

Lou Rochet

Château du Grand Bos

Château du Grand Bos is located in Castres, in a part of the Graves appellation which is home to some of the oldest Bordeaux vineyards dating back 2,000 years. The Château and vineyard lie near the old Roman road named “Chemin Gallien.” As early as 1868, editions of Cocks & Feret listed Château du Grand Bos as a leading estate in its commune. When André Vincent bought the property in 1988, the vineyard, composed of very deep gravel, had not been cultivated for thirty years. André sold his property in Saint Estephe, Chateau La Haye, with the idea of retiring at Grand Bos. Realizing the remarkable potential of his terroir, he instead immediately set out to replant the vineyard in addition to restoring the Château. After the initial work was done in the late 1980’s, André made further renovations to the winery in 2005 and refashioned the underground cellar into a pristine barrel room which includes a 17th century well that offers lots of natural humidity. In 2007 André’s daughter, Marie, began helping her father run the estate. In 2017, André’s granddaughter, Lou Rochet, arrived at the winery with master’s degrees in both chemistry and oenology. Her first vintage was 2018. Since 2020, the winery has been in organic conversion with the 2023 vintage being the first to be certified. Lou uses bio-dynamic principles in her farming and is able to grow many of the necessary plants for her tisanes in the forest that surround her vineyard. She works with a local beekeeper who stations his hives throughout the vineyard.

Julie Logel

Julie Logel

Verdier-Logel Winery

The Côtes du Forez appellation is located between the Loire and Allier rivers in the center of France. The nearest town of note is St. Etienne which was significant to the booming mining industry that dominated the region through the nineteenth century. The miners required a lot of wine to quench their thirst and as late as 1930 there were 5000 hectares planted in Côtes du Forez. Today, there are less than 200.

Jacky Logel and Odile Verdier took over responsibility for Odile’s family vineyard in 1992. They began estate bottling under the Verdier-Logel label in 1997 and were instrumental in gaining AOC status for Cotes du Forez in 2000. When Jacky retired in 2019, their daughter Julie Logel returned home to run the estate with her cousin Maxime. Domaine Verdier-Logel is the leading estate of this small and obscure appellation where vineyards are few and far between. The Côtes du Forez hillsides are foothills of the volcanic mountains of the Massif Central and have soils of granite and volcanic composition. The cool climate and rocky soils impart a strong, earthy fragrance to the wines which combines well with the elegant fruitiness of the gamay grape. Due to the difficult climate only parcels with the best exposition and soils are planted with grapevines. The appellation’s laws mandate Gamay as the sole grape to be used and Verdier-Logel produces separate wines from volcanic and granite soils. The Domaine Verdier-Logel is certified both organic and bio-dynamic.

Melanie Drémont

Melanie Drémont

Champagne Drémont Marroy

The brother and sister team of Jean-Rémi and Melanie Drémont came on the scene in 2016 and they are creating some waves along the Marne river’s “grand meandre.” Jean-Rémi and Melanie are the fourth generation to work the family farm in Charly-sur-Marne, and although their grandmother planted a hectare of vines in 1945, it was their parents who patiently over the last 25 years increased the vineyards from 1 hectare to 7.5 hectares. During this period, they sold their fruit to negociants. Jean-Rémi and Melanie produced the family’s first wine in 2018 and released their first Champagne in 2021. The estate was certified organic in 2022. Jean-Rémi and Melanie bring a lot of thoughtfulness and energy to everything they do. In the vineyard, they use a variety of cover crops to re-balance the soil, they partner with bee-keepers who install hives in the vineyards and they bring in local flocks of sheep to graze in the vineyards. They do a lot of vineyard work manually and work some plots with their Boulonnais draft horse. In the cellar, they vinify individual parcels separately using a variety of containers including stainless steel, cement eggs and foudres. They take only the juice from the first press known as “la cuvée” and vinification is with indigenous yeasts. The wines stay “sur lie” for ten months before bottling.

 

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