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These wines that made the greatest sommeliers cry with joy

2023-03-17T20:19:40.472Z


THE FIGARO SELECTION - Philippe Faure-Brac, Paz Levinson, Antoine Pétrus, Gaby Benicio, so many eminences of the sommellerie, who reveal to the readers of Figaro the wine that gave them the greatest emotion of their career.


Among the thousands of wines tasted by the great sommeliers, few manage to remain etched in their memory forever.

If it is often about cuvées recognized as exceptional, it can also be about real surprises, which arise without warning in the darkness of a cellar, or in the middle of a service which however promised to be identical. to that of the day before.

But behind each of these wines, the beauty of a moment emerges, which these personalities from very diverse backgrounds have agreed to recount, still visibly moved.

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Paz Levinson, Head Sommelier of Groupe Pic and Best Sommelier of the Americas 2015

Paz Levinson Paz Levinson

Domaine Raymond Trollat ​​– Saint-Joseph 1978


Rhône Valley – Saint-Joseph

“We toured the vineyard during the day.

It's always instructive to be with Jean or Pierre Gonon in the vineyards.

They know every foot, every place, because they work the vines on a daily basis.

Then, we returned to the domain and went to the cellar, a…

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Source: lefigaro

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