Comments on: Arretxea, Hegoxuri, Irouléguy: unpronounceable words you should know

By: Bringing wine back to the USA from your travels | Dr Vino's wine blog

Bringing wine back to the USA from your travels | Dr Vino's wine blog — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 03:42:04 +0000

[...] liter each, so we were forced to drink almost all the wines we got while we were there. I’ve written up one already — more notes [...]

By: Arretxea Irouleguy and Tissot Poulsard – geek out, winter or fall - Out of Bottle

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:22:12 +0000

[...] and smooth but substantial tannins. Their white is also very good even if a recent vintage was denied the appelllation (again, a condemnation of the appellation system, not the producer). Importer: Kermit [...]

By: Au Trou Gascon : A Life Worth Eating

Au Trou Gascon : A Life Worth Eating — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:11:55 +0000

[...] a bottle of white wine to go with our first few courses. He delivered in a big way with the Domaine Arretxea “Hegoxuri” (2006, I think), an AOC wine made on a biodynamic vineyard in Irouléguy. We tasted it and reacted [...]

By: Debbie

Debbie — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 19:44:58 +0000

Kermit Lynch imports the Arretxtea wines from Irouleguy. He’s done more than anyone to make it NOT difficult to find impeccable French wines from honest producers for years.

By: Erika Strum

Erika Strum — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 01:58:23 +0000

Wow, sounds like such an interesting wine. I’m very humbled as I’ve never had any of those grapes but would love to try them sometime! It’s such a shame how difficult it is to get French table wine in the US.

By: Dr Vino’s wine blog » Blog Archive » Wine: you CAN take it with you when you go!

Fri, 06 Jul 2007 16:39:33 +0000

[...] liter each, so we were forced to drink almost all the wines we got while we were there. I’ve written up one already — more notes [...]

By: Dr. Vino

Dr. Vino — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 10:52:54 +0000

Ronan,

I’ll be on the lookout for Brana! As well as one of the Arretxea reds.

Larissa,

Great question! The Derniere Goutte is a good one. But here’s a link to several of my postings from France last summer.
http://drvino.com/2006/10/25/parisfrance-wine-roundup/

Unfortunately the internal links there pop you back over to my old site, but the content is all the same. Here are two links for Caves Auge and Derniere Goutte on this URL:
http://drvino.com/2006/08/09/la-derniere-goutte-paris/
http://drvino.com/2006/09/11/caves-auge-oldest-wine-shop-in-paris/

And some fun wine bars:
http://drvino.com/2006/10/24/feeling-natural-in-paris-wine-bars/

Have a great trip! Cheers,

By: larisa

larisa — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 03:47:13 +0000

Hi´! first of all congrats on your blog i learn a lot of things! and i want to ask you something, really soon i´m going to Paris (first time) and i´m really excited, and my question is: can you suggest me any wine-store?
I just got recently graduate from university (gastronomy) and i´m learning more about wine! i hope you can anwser me!! thanks!!

By: Ronan

Ronan — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 19:22:29 +0000

Another interessant name in Irouléguy : Brana

http://www.brana.fr/degustations.php