Sommelier tasting with winemaker Greg La Follette
Melissa Moholt-Siebert • May 29, 2020
We gathered 60+ sommeliers from around the country, each with four wines we had sent them, and spent an hour and a half tasting and talking together.
For those of you who were with us, enjoy this review. For others, here's Greg getting pretty jazzed by the collective passions of these 60+ amazing wine professionals.
For all who are involved in getting wines into the glasses of enthusiastic wine consumers, you have our sincere gratitude.
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