About Lexcellent Wines
Lexcellent Wines is now more than 12
years
old! The agency came about as a marriage between our growing interest
in
quality
wine, and our desires to visit Dominique's family in France and have a
personal relationship with her homeland. We have been very fortunate
— especially in our winemakers, who are both excellent producers and
warm and welcoming human beings — they make this 'business' a rewarding
experience year after year.
Our fundamental criteria for our portfolio choices are simple. We like
these wines because they have the character, finesse and structure to
support and enhance our interactions with those who share them with
us. We have always reserved judgement until we could enjoy a
bottle, quietly and privately, with food and good company. The
standard
'wine-tasting', the 'sip & spit' encounter, can certainly tell you
some surface things about a wine, but only a bottle (or better yet,
several, from many vintages) can teach you about a winemaker and
her/his vineyard. In the
end, winemakers are who we seek and who we value — the people whose
experience, knowledge, hard work, and inspired interaction with the
vineyard and in the cave is expressed in a fine bottle of wine. Such a
bottle enhances the human moment and remains an integral part of
important
relationships and memories. That's what matters to us —
Santé!
PS: We'd like to say that this is our 'country house in France' -- it is, rather, the chateau in the Parc de Sceaux located in the southwest suburbs of Paris -- a lovely place for a Sunday stroll.