Commanderie de Bordeaux Mexico City Wine Dinner

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In May, I was invited to lead a wine dinner for the Commanderie de Bordeaux chapter in Mexico City. Established in early 2023, the chapter’s “Maître” is entrepreneur and hard core wine lover Humberto Herrera. Humberto and I connected through Instagram in the fall of 2022 and became fast friends over our mutual love of older Loire Valley Cabernet Franc and one domaine in particular, Domaine Alain et Jérôme Lenoir.

Humberto asked if I would be willing to come to Mexico City to lead a Cabernet Franc-themed dinner for the newly established Commanderie chapter, and naturally I jumped at the chance. On one condition… we had to include some Loire Cabernet Francs in the mix. In Bordeaux, as it is well-known, Cabernet Franc-dominant wines let alone single varietal Cabernet Franc is rare, so the goal was to choose wines from châteaux and domaines who see Cabernet Franc as an integral part of their DNA. For the Loire wines, my goal was to showcase the core regions and highlight top vineyards and/…