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Around the world with Bachelder

Friday 18 July 2014
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Québecois Thomas Bachelder made some pretty good wines at Lemelson in Oregon and was then lured back to Ontario to be the first winemaker for the ambitious Boisset-Vincor project Le Clos Jordanne.

He has now gone solo, or at least with his wife Mary Delaney runs an ambitious operation that makes Chardonnay and a bit of Pinot Noir in Ontario, Oregon andThomas_Bachelder Burgundy. Since these are all in the northern hemisphere, I would have thought this would be a logistical nightmare, but I have tasted the latest crop of results (see below) and it all seems to be coming along...
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