There are times you get invited to tastings of wines you have never heard of.\u00a0 It\u2019s easy to say yes to the Latours, Bouchards, Masis and Frescobaldis of the world, but when you hear a name like Abbotts & Delaunay from the Languedoc (Southern France) you wonder if it\u2019s worth your time \u2013 afterall there are only so many hours in a day.\u00a0 You think I\u2019m being egotistical, but every wine writer worth his salt thinks the same way \u2026 but, and this is the determining factor: every wine writer is also a very curious sort, and the chance to try something new pulls on his or her heart strings\u00a0 even more than the timing-factor pulls against.\u00a0 Which was why I find myself at the table today at the ex-Jamie Kennedy establishment now just called Wine Bar.<\/p>\n
Many will remember, or think of the Languedoc-Rousillon region as the bulk wine ghetto of France \u2013 and that was true years ago \u2026 but as they say, that was then, this is now.\u00a0 These days the Languedoc-Rousillon is changing its image, producing first class wines at very reasonable prices \u2013 and that truly is the key \u2026 the price of Languedoc wines are, for lack of a better term, \u201ccheap\u201d (I know my mom hates when I use that term) compared to the quality in the bottle.<\/p>\n
The story of Abbotts & Delaunay is not your typical one… (to read about the wines tasted click here<\/a>)<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n