CONTRIBUTORS: |
Hospice du Rhône is our kind of wine event. There are lots of things it isn’t. It isn’t the New York Wine Experience – no tuxedos, no limos, no glitz, no glitter. It isn’t Russian River Barrel Tasting Weekend – no packed parking lots and crowds ten deep at the tasting tables. It isn’t San Francisco. It isn’t Los Angeles. This
is Paso Robles, folks, this is Wine Country without the Napatude. We
didn’t play croquet here, or golf, or tennis, or polo. We bowled. We
didn’t meet any celebrity winemakers here. We got to spend time with
John Alban, and Mat Garretson, and Yves Gangloff, and Michel Chapoutier,
and Chester Osborn – all friendly gentlemen creating wines of the
highest order. And, we tasted some of the finest wines produced on three continents. "The Ninth Annual Hospice du Rhone international celebration of Rhone wines will be held May 31 through June 2, 2001. We will again return to the California Mid-State Fairgrounds in Paso Robles." Mat Garretson |