French Collection 2024

• Domaine des Florets Alliance 2022
• Champagne Allouchery DeGuerne Premier Cru Cuvée Selection 
• Domaine de Noiré Caractère 2018
• Château Romanin Grand Vin Rouge 2018
• Château Tasta T de Tasta 2019
• Domaine des Deux Fontaines Fleurie La Presle 2022

Many of the vines that birthed the six bottles before you have seen more than one French Republic rise and fall. In that time, many fashions have gone from boom to bust, and countless summers given way to fall. 

Longtime members know that old vines, 30 years and older, are a rarity. Being in “the business” of wine means catering to the whims of the market and therefore ripping out and replanting every couple decades. 

But for the winemaker willing to adopt a multi-generational time horizon rather than one limited to his own career, there are rewards in, say, an 80 year old vine. We like them here at the Partnership not just for the wine that they produce — concentrated, deep, lingering — but also for what they tell us about the winemaker himself. His is not a mass market concern, but an expression of time, place, and history.

In other words, the old vine wine is a sort of living artwork, to be considered, to spark thought, or conversation. The bottles we’ve sourced for this year’s French Collection are precisely those kinds of wines.