About five or six years ago David Cowderoy, the British wine consultant, managed to acquire a winery in the Pyrenees mountains--Minervois to be exact. He has a very small production that is, unsurprisingly, not widely available in the U.S., in fact it is only in four or five states, fortunately for me, Maryland is one of them. Because, I love Ch. La Bouscade's Les Sept Vents, his reserve "best of his vineyards" wine it's big and hearty full-bodied classic Syrah, Grenache, blend with a heavy mouth feel and a lot of cherry, flowers and spice flavors with a long lingering almost citrus finish. And more's the wonder--in the past year the price actually went down to $17.99. In the past few months we have sold cases of this wine--or at least we should have, but we didn't have any to sell. The distributer was out, the importer looked down for the count, and it seemed as if we were not going to be able to get anymore (I did manage to snag few bottles the warehouse still had because the labels were messed up). Now it's back--which is the good news. The bad news is because everybody I introduced to it hasn't seen it for such a long time they've stopped looking for it, and I now have reintroduce everybody to it. More importantly I have to remember to reintroduce everybody to it because nobody comes in asking, "Do you carry any Minervois?". And the bonus fun is that the winery is going to change the name to QED which will make it even more difficult to rebuild the fan-base.
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