Have You Heard About Domaine Faury-Gros Pinot Noir?
François Gros is pretty good at understatement. Which means he’s a master at that Gallic style of sharing big news in an offhand way. He says has a barrel company. Translation: He runs the U.S. business for H&A one of the nation’s biggest barrel-leasing companies. Business is good — two years ago he leased about 2,300 barrels. This year he’s already moved three times that amount. “I have trucks and warehouses… it’s crazy.” But not too crazy to meet me at The Oxbow on a Thursday morning for a wine tasting at the picnic tables. We’re here because he mentioned in passing he makes pinot noir with a friend, and at the time, they only sold it by word of mouth. Turns out this friend is another Frenchman— Simon Faury, the winemaker at Merryvale Vineyards. They had had bumped into each other in Condrieu at Domaine Yves Gangloff…
July 31, 2019