It was a pinch-me moment.
Yesterday, as I stood in a quiet, regal, artwork-lined room on the first floor of the Château du Clos de Vougeot, I had one of those rare realisations that life is indeed very good.
It’s not hard to feel enthusiastic when you have a lineup of thirteen 2016 vintage Clos Vougeot wines in front of you. Great red Burgundy will do that. But I kept thinking (and not thinking too loudly, this room felt hallowed) that the starry-eyed, fresh-to-the-wine-industry Andrew of the year 2000 would have never ever dreamed that I’d be at this point.
And all this week, I get to do variations of this Burgundian dream over and over again (just with different flavours)…
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