Watch the Video. Taste the Wines. Cain at Federal TOMORROW.
Posted by Cathy Huyghe on Mon, Mar 14, 2011 @ 07:45 AM
A few years ago I attended the Nantucket Wine Festival, video recorder in hand, and went around asking winemakers what the Boston market meant to them.
I got some unexpected responses.
Ray Coursen, winemaker at Napa's Elyse Winery, went to the Agricultural College at UMASS way back in the day.
Jack Bittner, general manager at Cliff Lede Vineyards, studied philosophy at Boston College and worked in a wine shop in Stow (for easy access to the beer, he's the first to admit) before he made his way out to California.
Philippe Senard, of Domaine Comte Senard with its Grand Cru vineyards in Burgundy, has been exporting to Boston for some 30 years to satisfy local connoisseurs' palates.
And then I approached Christopher Howell of Cain Vineyard in Napa. Here's what he had to say.
He's right. Boston is a meeting point for people all over the world.
Which is, I'm guessing, why Howell keeps coming back.
Tomorrow night at Federal Wine & Spirits, for example, he'll be there, in person, pouring his flagship Cain V, 2006 Cain Concept, the Cain Cuvee Lot 7, and perhaps a library selection (which is an extra-special treat).
Go and talk to him. He'll be there from 5 to 7 p.m. Taste his wines. Show him that all his talk about Boston -- as civilized, sophisticated, personal yet cosmopolitan -- is spot on.