patrick léon

"The idea is always to be a grower of crémant, because everybody knows about Champagne, and nobody ever talks about growers of crémant, and this is what I am doing." - François-Xavier Chaillou

John and I were never particularly fond of Opus One, finding it overpriced and over-rated. That changed in 2004 when we did a blind tasting of 50 expensive, well-known, very expensive American Cabernet Sauvignons and Bordeaux-style proprietary blends." - Dorothy J. Gaiter