It was with heavy hearts (and heavy bags of wines) that the Hong Kong team plodded round to a nearby Japanese restaurant last week for the farewell dinner of the inimitable Miss Jessica Law who left Farr on Friday 19th after 4 years with the company. True to form our departure was delayed by Jessica deftly juggling last minute customer calls and getting in the final sales order for the day. Once we finally got there drinking the wine certainly helped lighten the bags but it was only the promise of future visits and social calls from Jessica that helped lighten our hearts – well nobody could stay down through any evening that started with Dom Perignon.
Tuesday saw the annual Farr Vintners Christmas Tasting at the historic Vintners Hall in London. In attendance were some of the finest names in the wine world, including Frédéric Engerer of Château Latour, Jean-Guillaume Prats of Château Cos d'Estournel, Mélanie Tesseron of Château Pontet-Canet and Emeline Borie of Châteaux Grand-Puy-Lacoste and Haut-Batailley. We were also delighted to show wines from Zind-Humbrecht, Verget/Guffens-Heynen, William Fèvre, Peter Michael, Krug, Dom Pérignon, Nyetimber, Gosset, Beaucastel, and many, many more.
Last week we headed off to the Rhône Valley to see if the 2009 wines were shaping up to be as good as the talk that surrounds them. We were not let down.
