Kermit Lynch
Kermit Lynch
Kermit Lynch is an American wine importer, author, and winemaker based in Berkeley, California. He is the author of Adventures on the Wine Route which won the Veuve Clicquot Wine Book of the Year award. He is a winner of the James Beard Foundation's "Wine Professional of the Year", and the Chevalier de l'Ordre de Mérite Agricole medal presented by the French government for his service to the wine industry. In 2005 he was awarded the insignia of Chevalier de...
began daughter learn parents school sending son
It began in the '70s, when (French winemaking) parents started sending their son or daughter to enology school to learn about wine,
buy cops devoted lives outside people taste tourists wines
The tourists used to go down to Sancerre (in the Loire region) for the weekend, taste wines and buy for their cellar, ... Now they can't do that anymore. The cops are right outside the winery ... (Vintners) feel betrayed, these people who have devoted their lives to something they think is beautiful. Now they're told it's criminal.
black fad followed opinion trying wines
Too many of them (Languedoc producers) in my opinion have followed the fad and are trying to make inky black wines with too much oak,
finesse means
Finesse to most Americans means light, ... But it doesn't mean that in France. It means harmony, balance, completeness.
along divided large nobody passed plot time
Each time a vineyard is passed along to the kids, it has to be divided up, ... Nobody has a large enough plot to make a living.
coming keeps love perfume
With my palate, I love that perfume that keeps coming up,
came chemical equations father home kids knows later noticed saw son sooner talking taste wines
I noticed the kids came home talking about chemical equations and the father's scratching his head. I saw it so often -- the father would say, 'I'm an idiot, but my son is a genius. He knows about malolactic fermentation.' Sooner or later all these wines taste the same.
natural turned
I like natural wine. If a wine's too technical, I'm turned off.