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Meet Jean-Michel Deiss and Jean Charles Abbatucci as they take you on a tasting tour of France!

Jean-Michel Deiss and Jean Charles Abbatucci are here to cover two diverse regions from this storied winemaking country. 

Starting in Alsace with Deiss you will discover all that you can learn about Alsatian wines. 
Jean-Michel Deiss is a descendent of a family of winegrowers who first settled Bergheim in 1744. His grandfather Marcel Deiss, founded the family winery in 1947. 
Once he started producing his own wines, he set about rejecting most of what he had been taught and time and again finding his own path.  Over the course of twenty-five years Jean-Michel has brought Domaine Marcel Deiss into its modern era, and become acknowledged as one of the greatest white wine producers in the world.

“Jean-Michel Deiss has been growing some of the finest wines in Alsace for more than a quarter century and with them – as well as with his passionately articulate discourse – capturing the imagination and affection of wine enthusiasts world-wide.”  David Schildknecht, Wine Advocate Feb 2008

Heading to Corsica, Abbatucci will educate you on this small island ‘s winemaking as you taste through his delicious lineup! 

Certified biodynamic, Abbatucci believes in following even the most far-out biodynamic practices to the letter. On his large estate south of Ajaccio he keeps a pristine poly-culture ecosystem in place, complete with herds of sheep foraging through his vines, groves of olive trees on ancient terraces, and large swaths of untouched forests. His vines come from cuttings of indigenous grapes, sourced decades ago high up in the isolated and mountainous interior of the island from elderly peasant farmers, effectively saving several native varieties from extinction. To keep his vines happy, he’s known to drive his tractor out to his vineyards and play traditional Corsican polyphonic songs over loudspeakers for their benefit. After the harvest he’ll treat his cellar to the same music as his grapes ferment and come of age. All part of the terroir, he says. Does all this have an actual effect on the wine? Have a taste for yourself.

Never tried wines from Corsica before?  Take a look what Wine Advocate had to say about these wines

“I can think of few if any wines that have given me a more delightful jolt of discovery in the past year than those of Jean-Charles Abbatucci, grown outside Ajaccio, Corsica’s capital and only large city, in the long-standing, eponymous appellation on this island’s granitic western coast. A believer in biodynamics; poly-culture; and the preservation and propagation of ancient vines and selections massales…” David Schildknecht, Wine Advocate August 2011