LeDomduVin: Visiting Old and Rare Ladies

Monday, August 21, 2017

Visiting Old and Rare Ladies

I try to live my life by doing at least one good deed a day… As Wine Quality Control Director and Sommelier, 2 or 3 times a week my good deed is to visit a retirement home for old and rare ladies to whom I provide some tenderness, love and care, while checking their conditions and helping to preserve them as needed…. Today a Lafite 1947 and a Lafite 1961 didn’t look so good… low morale level 😊 .. So I spent a bit more time with them… 😉

This retirement home for old and rare ladies, as I like to call it, is the Display Cellar at the French restaurant Le Pan Apicius located in the Goldin Financial Global Center (the company I have been working for the past 5 years).

Le Pan Apicius restaurant display cellar abounds of old and rare wine gems including one of the most unique collection of Chateau d'Yquem going back to 1825. Guests and patrons can admire rows of Petrus, DRC (Domaine de la Romanée Conti), Yquem, Haut-Brion, Lafite, Latour, Mouton, Cheval Blanc and much more on their way to the dining room.

Every day I pay them a visit, looking at them through the display window as well as checking the Humidity and Temperature Indicator Digital Display to make sure the storage condition and environment are ideal (Temperature and Humidity Level, Light, etc...).

2 or 3 times a week, I enter this cavern of Ali Baba to check the bottle conditions and tend to them as needed. Sometimes the labels can be slightly detached or need more protection against the light, dust, etc... I do what is needed to preserve them from harm.

Come with me I will show you around....