This confirms what our palates told us in our recent tasting of our wines in Bordeaux: the 2010 vintage is outstanding!

Thanks to my contacts in LinkedIn, I have connected with a new friend, Ronald Rens, M. Sc., Wine Master Wine writer and President The Bordeaux Wine Experience, who is a great exponent of what is happening with the 2010 vintage in Bordeaux.  I will share his notes with you here:

Dear Benjamin,

This is the Bordeaux 2010 Vintage Special!

What is a Journey?

What is a journey? Will you respond like Webster’s dictionary-“an act of going from one place to another”..? Usually a familiar word creates a familiar response yet I posit that journey can be defined more broadly.

I did travel from one place to another, drive a specific route, walk along a pathway, and tour a city. Yet, this word intrigues me because I define journey in different ways.

Three Types of Journeys

The first type of journey is purposeful planning coupled with progressive actions to achieve a specific end result-a college degree, new career, specific skill development.

The second type of journey is a forced unwilling path-relocation, job loss, cancer diagnosis, a death in the family.

The third type of journey is the unrecognized one from familiar daily events- a child learning to walk, to read or accumulating knowledge from a routine hobby-gardening, cooking, teaching.

Journey Defines Life Events

So journey to me defines many life events and happenings in my life. I want to stay and observe them carefully. Failure on my part to not notice a journey means I will miss it.

I find many journeys within the whole concept of wine even beginning with that parcel of land in front of my living room window. Every aspect from growing the grape varietals to harvesting, from wine making and to bottle production has a journey intimately connected to produce the final wine. It is hard to decide which journey is more critical.

I plan to take you along many wine journeys in the coming months. The fascination I have with journeys is what I learn about myself along the way.

Our Wine: Your Social Networking Tool

Since wine will be your social networking tool, we will invite you to share our wines after their release. You will be the “Parkers”, the “Wine Advocates” and the “Wine Enthusiasts”. Create your own point system. Your opinions will be sacred to us.

Our wine labels list the current blend of the great grapes we used to produce our wines from Bordeaux.  Our purpose is to offer a special wine to share with your friends and loved ones.

You are invited to participate in creating a new movement towards the liberalization of wine taste, breaking the chains that threaten to convert quality wine into a mass marketing commodity. Great wines clearly deserve better!

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