| Patrick Lesec
Owner: Patrick Lesec
Address: Unknown
Direct sale: "Please note: Neither Chemin des Vins nor Patrick Lesec Selections sells
directly to consumers"
E-mail (Chemin des Vins)
Homepage:
http://www.chemindesvins.com
Patrick Lesec is a big negociant firm. It has not vineyards of
its own. Patric Lesec owns a restaurant in California and saw, that the French
wine producers could not satisfy the costumers' wishes. Then he decided to do
something about it. He went back to France about 1990 and started finding
producers all over France, but mostly in the Rhone area, who agreed in his
philosofy about winemaking. If they could make the wines then he could sell them
in USA and Canada.
In the Patrick Lesec Selections portfolio, there are three categories of
products:
- Estate wines where Patrick consults on wine making and the wines are
bottled under their own labels;
- Negociant wines where Patrick produces wines at individual estates and
bottles them under his own label;
- Other domaines whose style and philosophy are compatible with
Patrick's. These wines are marketed by Patrick Lesec Selections and Chemin
des Vins under the estate labels.
Chemin des Vins is an American company that handles sales and marketing of
the wines from Patrick Lesec Selections.
Many different Chateauneuf du Papes are made under the Lesec umbrella:
Marquis Tonneaux 70% Grenache and 30% Mourvedre. Aged for one year in 2-4 year old barrels.
Marquis 95% Grenache and 5% Mourvedre.
50% aged in foudres, 20% in older barrels, 30% in tanks.
Rubis 95% Grenache og 5% Syrah. Ageing: 50% in foudre, 50% in tank.
Kristial 95% Grenache og 5% Syrah.
75% aged in barrels 2-4 years old, 25% aged in foudres.
Pierres Dorées 85% Grenache and 15% Mourvedre.
25% aged in foudres, 75% in older barrels.
Bargeton 80%
Grenache and 20% Mourvedre. 15% aged in foudres, 70% in older barrels, 15% in tanks.
Galets Blondes 93% Grenache and 7%
Syrah. Aged in
tank and foudres.
Chasse Temps 66% Grenache and 34%
Mourvedre. Elevage in 40% new foudres, 20% old foudres, and 40% in tanks.
And several other wines from different appellations.
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