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May 03, 2021
This image of David was taken when he was toasting to his decades of producing world class Pinot Noir and Chardonnays, in the Santa Cruz Mountains. In 2021, David celebrated six decades of being known as a world class winemaker. photo by Jo Diaz
A quote from David Bruce, “Through a rather remarkable series of events, I was exposed to a remarkable wine. That wine was the 1954 Richebourg, a famous Burgundy made by the Domaine de Romanée Conti. Alexis Lichine, in his book Wines of France, described the wines from this vineyard as having a [noble robe]. I had no idea what that meant but I had to find out. When I removed that 2.5” cork from that bottle, the whole room was pervaded by this floral, spicy aroma. At that instant I became committed. This window opened before me. I did not have a choice. I simply had to do it. My lifelong commitment was simply to make the ‘greatest Pinot Noir.’ I was put on Earth to make the great Pinot Noir
La Paulée de New York 2020: Era-defining
By Jordan Mackay | April 12 2021
La Paulee 2020. All photography courtesy of La Paulée
The 20th anniversary edition of the celebration of Burgundy proved to be a spectacular occasion
From only one year out, reflecting on La Paulée de New York 2020 feels like gazing back into another era. As it always does, the great celebration of Burgundy took place at various venues across the Big Apple in the chilly, windblown first week of March. But this first week of March also happened to be the last week of a particular epoch in world history. Were those of us merrily clinking glasses of the world’s greatest Pinot Noir and Chardonnay akin to the merrymakers on the decks of the
Bishop Fulton J. Sheen Predicts 2021
Antoine Louis Léon de Richebourg de Saint-Just
Saint-Just was a major enthusiastic leader of the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution, who was himself executed by the guillotine.
The above quote by Saint-Just is a concise summary of the Satanic philosophy of today’s Social Justice Warrior extremists and their terrorist mobs of BLM and antifa. They claim an absolute, irrefutable monopoly on virtue and see anyone who dares question their totalitarian group think as guilty of treason.