Burgundies in Sonoma

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Leave it to Jean-Charles Boisset (pictured left at his new bar) to offer tastings and sales of Burgundy wines on a prominent corner of Sonoma County's trendiest wine country village Healdsburg.

It's a cheeky move, for sure, yet the irrepressible Jean-Charles, of Burgundy's Boisset négociant firm and president of Boisset Family Wines in America, also pours his DeLoach Vineyards Russian River Valley and Sonoma Coast Chardonnays and Pinot Noirs, plus his small-production JCB by Jean-Charles Boisset label, at the new Boisset Taste of Terroir retail room on the Healdsburg plaza.

Cynic that I am, I attended the grand opening 22...