Chief Grape’s USA Wine Tour

Make wine not war (c) Kristin Espinasse
Jean-Marc will be putting on a clean shirt and looking forward to meeting you all very soon! Read his message, below.

Dear Friends,

Here is my 2013 US meet ups. I am coming with the new vintages and lots of new things to tell you. Hope to see you then.

Here is my whole itinerary. This page will be updated as the events (wine tasting, wine dinner) are definitely set. If you plan to attend one of them,which I do hope, please sign up using the link of the restaurant… Last year, we have been sold out many times and I would hate to see you at the door without a seat !

03/18 – New York NY
Wine tasting at City WineryProfessional only

03/19 – Charlottesville VA
Wine Dinner at 6 PM at Clinfton InnReservation needed

03/20 – Washington DC
Wine tasting from 5 PM at Chats
Wine dinner at 7 PM at Boundary RoadReservation needed
 
03/21 – Chicago IL
Wine tasting from 6 to 8 PM at Lush Wine & Spirits (1412 West Chicago Avenue, Chicago – Tel : 312 666 6900) / Lush Wine & Spirits

03/22 – Minneapolis & St Paul
Wine tasting from 4 to 6 PM at Pairings Food & Wine
Wine dinner from 7 PM at 128 CaféReservation needed
 
03/23 – Iowa City IA
Wine dinner from 6 PM at Motley Cow CafeReservation needed
 
03/24 & 03/25 – Houston TX
Wine tasting on 03/24 from 3 to 6 PM at French Country Wines
Wine dinner on 03/25 from 7 PM at Bistro ProvenceReservation needed
03/26 – Los Angeles CA
Wine dinner from 6 30 PM at Ammo Cafe. Reservation needed
 
03/27 & 03/28 – Portland OR
Wine dinner at Sauvage restaurant on 03/27 from 7 30 PM. Reservation needed 
Wine tasting at Mt Tabor Fine Wines on 03/28 from 5 to 7 PM
03/29 – Seattle WA
Wine tasting from 3 to 6 PM at Pike and Western
 

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92 thoughts on “Chief Grape’s USA Wine Tour

  1. Hi Jean-Marc and Kristi!
    I am so excited that JM will be in Charlottesville! I am going to make my reservations today! I love the Clifton Inn!

  2. Hi Jean-Marc and Kristi!
    I am so excited that JM will be in Charlottesville! I am going to make my reservations today! I love the Clifton Inn!

  3. Please, please add the San Francisco Bay Area to your tour after Seattle! He simply can’t come all this way and not come to San Francisco which has the largest French expat community in the entire US. We love your wines Jean Marc, come visit us. And you know, you are always welcome to stay in our home …. as you and Kristi did in Paris. Please consider. xx

  4. Please, please add the San Francisco Bay Area to your tour after Seattle! He simply can’t come all this way and not come to San Francisco which has the largest French expat community in the entire US. We love your wines Jean Marc, come visit us. And you know, you are always welcome to stay in our home …. as you and Kristi did in Paris. Please consider. xx

  5. Jean Marc,
    I so was hoping you could introduce your wines at my Bistro/Winery in Missouri this year. But alas I am here in Les Arcs until the first part of April and thats when you are there, UNLESS you can organize us as a last stop home in April after I return. Room, Board and an attentative audience of customers would await you at The Eagle’s Nest in a lovely Mississippi river town just north of St.Louis. Kristi has my contact info here in France. Karen

  6. Jean Marc,
    I so was hoping you could introduce your wines at my Bistro/Winery in Missouri this year. But alas I am here in Les Arcs until the first part of April and thats when you are there, UNLESS you can organize us as a last stop home in April after I return. Room, Board and an attentative audience of customers would await you at The Eagle’s Nest in a lovely Mississippi river town just north of St.Louis. Kristi has my contact info here in France. Karen

  7. Jean-Marc,
    I’m sorry to see that you won’t be coming to Bouchon in Asheville this year. Bettie and I were looking forward to seeing you and hearing about the plans for your new wine operation. I wish you luck with your tour and and with your new ventures in the Bandol area.

  8. Jean-Marc,
    I’m sorry to see that you won’t be coming to Bouchon in Asheville this year. Bettie and I were looking forward to seeing you and hearing about the plans for your new wine operation. I wish you luck with your tour and and with your new ventures in the Bandol area.

  9. Robert’s Market in Woodside CA (John) or K&L Wine Merchants on the Peninsula and SF Wine Traders here in San Francisco have carried your wines (or would like to)….some places I go to find your wines . Hope you can make a detour to the Bay Area.

  10. Robert’s Market in Woodside CA (John) or K&L Wine Merchants on the Peninsula and SF Wine Traders here in San Francisco have carried your wines (or would like to)….some places I go to find your wines . Hope you can make a detour to the Bay Area.

  11. Jean-Marc and Kristi,
    Let me know the Seattle itinerary when you can. I have a 93-year-old uncle to visit and I may try to make that visit around your wine tour. Sorry that you will not be coming to Boston, we so loved your last year’s visit, but understand that you are not able to go everywhere, each year.
    Take care,
    Caroline

  12. Jean-Marc and Kristi,
    Let me know the Seattle itinerary when you can. I have a 93-year-old uncle to visit and I may try to make that visit around your wine tour. Sorry that you will not be coming to Boston, we so loved your last year’s visit, but understand that you are not able to go everywhere, each year.
    Take care,
    Caroline

  13. Does Kermit Lynch or Vintage Berkeley carry your wines? Berkeley is such a great place to visit!
    Love buying wines at those two places in Berkeley!

  14. Does Kermit Lynch or Vintage Berkeley carry your wines? Berkeley is such a great place to visit!
    Love buying wines at those two places in Berkeley!

  15. Bouchons at Asheville ! Why is the South being left out this tour, Jean-Marc?? I’ve narrowly missed getting reservations for two years and was hoping to be lucky this year. Alas, another year to wait to try my luck! I don’t know you but you’re at the top of my list for Best Husband of The Year, and nothing will change that. (I’m married to a man who has struggled for years like Kristi).
    Kristi, do it! The road-not-taken is always the wrong choice. And you will help us all.

  16. Bouchons at Asheville ! Why is the South being left out this tour, Jean-Marc?? I’ve narrowly missed getting reservations for two years and was hoping to be lucky this year. Alas, another year to wait to try my luck! I don’t know you but you’re at the top of my list for Best Husband of The Year, and nothing will change that. (I’m married to a man who has struggled for years like Kristi).
    Kristi, do it! The road-not-taken is always the wrong choice. And you will help us all.

  17. Another disappointed fan from Boston. Last years visit was so poorly promoted by the wine shop. Federal Wine in Boston is our go-to for French wines…hope to find they carry Domaine Rouge-Bleu. Looking forward to your Bandol…

  18. Another disappointed fan from Boston. Last years visit was so poorly promoted by the wine shop. Federal Wine in Boston is our go-to for French wines…hope to find they carry Domaine Rouge-Bleu. Looking forward to your Bandol…

  19. Dear Jean-Marc, (Kristi you may read this too, beautiful girl)
    Not an Atlanta or Nashville stop? Would love to see you and give you a big giant hug for enduring one of us recovering people. Those who suffer most are not the ones imbibing but the family members on the sideline watching the destruction. Kristi is so blessed to have such a wonderful husband who loves her and sticks by through it all.
    Don’t know who felt so privileged to judge or express a mean and uncalled for opinion but I bet they are not a happy person or yet ~ maybe would even benefit from a few AA meeting?? Just saying…… . Hang in there Jean-Marc. The best is yet to be.
    Come to Tennessee. You are all welcome in our home.
    Love ,

  20. Dear Jean-Marc, (Kristi you may read this too, beautiful girl)
    Not an Atlanta or Nashville stop? Would love to see you and give you a big giant hug for enduring one of us recovering people. Those who suffer most are not the ones imbibing but the family members on the sideline watching the destruction. Kristi is so blessed to have such a wonderful husband who loves her and sticks by through it all.
    Don’t know who felt so privileged to judge or express a mean and uncalled for opinion but I bet they are not a happy person or yet ~ maybe would even benefit from a few AA meeting?? Just saying…… . Hang in there Jean-Marc. The best is yet to be.
    Come to Tennessee. You are all welcome in our home.
    Love ,

  21. As Charles from Flat Rock NC posted above, please come back to Asheville! I was so disappointed to have missed you on your first tour.

  22. As Charles from Flat Rock NC posted above, please come back to Asheville! I was so disappointed to have missed you on your first tour.

  23. I wish you would come to San Diego! Can’t find any place here that carries your wines!
    How about one tour just for cities on the West Coast of the U.S.?

  24. I wish you would come to San Diego! Can’t find any place here that carries your wines!
    How about one tour just for cities on the West Coast of the U.S.?

  25. Checking the household calendar for 20 March….
    @JoanCook, send an email to the California distributor at hiram@winewise.biz He will be able to tell you if any of his clients stock Jean-Marc’s wines or arrange for one to handle a transaction for you. Friendly wine shops will stock most anything once at customer request.

  26. Checking the household calendar for 20 March….
    @JoanCook, send an email to the California distributor at hiram@winewise.biz He will be able to tell you if any of his clients stock Jean-Marc’s wines or arrange for one to handle a transaction for you. Friendly wine shops will stock most anything once at customer request.

  27. Kristin Espinasse very excited to see Jean Marc in USA in three places near us ie Iowa City, Minneapolis and Portland OR. Des Moines IA is also a cultural and population center in Iowa. While we travel in our work we are often in central Iowa not far from Des Moines and Jean Marc as in letter above is welcome to stay at our place whenever he is near. I will give him my address about 38 miles southeast of Des Moines if he ever would like my wife’s cuisine and some Ste Michelle Columbia River Winery fare. To communicate use winngregory@outlook.com and we will give you our home address, fax, phone et al. I still want you to consider treating actinic changes with Efudex cream and can get it for you if for some reason they don’t use it in France.Someday my wife, Denise, and I will visit France again and I hope visit you all. Oh what did you name your rescue wine last year? ton ami, Winn

  28. Kristin Espinasse very excited to see Jean Marc in USA in three places near us ie Iowa City, Minneapolis and Portland OR. Des Moines IA is also a cultural and population center in Iowa. While we travel in our work we are often in central Iowa not far from Des Moines and Jean Marc as in letter above is welcome to stay at our place whenever he is near. I will give him my address about 38 miles southeast of Des Moines if he ever would like my wife’s cuisine and some Ste Michelle Columbia River Winery fare. To communicate use winngregory@outlook.com and we will give you our home address, fax, phone et al. I still want you to consider treating actinic changes with Efudex cream and can get it for you if for some reason they don’t use it in France.Someday my wife, Denise, and I will visit France again and I hope visit you all. Oh what did you name your rescue wine last year? ton ami, Winn

  29. Oh I almost forgot, It is my lasting impression that you both love children and we have seven and nine grandchildren who can come to dinner too. hahahahhah

  30. Oh I almost forgot, It is my lasting impression that you both love children and we have seven and nine grandchildren who can come to dinner too. hahahahhah

  31. je suis desole but I have to persist once more. Efudex over 4 weeks daily will end actinic keratoses make skin effectively a bit younger and best of all end further surgeries for BCCA and SCCA of the skin. It has no effect on melanoma. Winn H. Gregory, MD, FACS GOOGLE it or WebMD if you want more scientific info. Excusez moi ma imprudence and so on but it concerns me whether you are in France, USA, Timbuktu or where ever. My dedication is to my family of humans well being. Love, to you both.

  32. je suis desole but I have to persist once more. Efudex over 4 weeks daily will end actinic keratoses make skin effectively a bit younger and best of all end further surgeries for BCCA and SCCA of the skin. It has no effect on melanoma. Winn H. Gregory, MD, FACS GOOGLE it or WebMD if you want more scientific info. Excusez moi ma imprudence and so on but it concerns me whether you are in France, USA, Timbuktu or where ever. My dedication is to my family of humans well being. Love, to you both.

  33. Yerda and I are looking forward to seeing you at one of your Seattle events at the end of March. It seems so long ago that we visited you both in St. Cecile les Vignes – maybe again this year at your new domaine.

  34. Yerda and I are looking forward to seeing you at one of your Seattle events at the end of March. It seems so long ago that we visited you both in St. Cecile les Vignes – maybe again this year at your new domaine.

  35. Winn, thank you very much for the reminder re Efudex and for your hospitable offer for Jean-Marc. I will make sure he sees all of these messages.
    Thanks to everyone who has left a message here. I will miss the chance to meet you, but there will be other occasions and other places to meet, I hope!

  36. Winn, thank you very much for the reminder re Efudex and for your hospitable offer for Jean-Marc. I will make sure he sees all of these messages.
    Thanks to everyone who has left a message here. I will miss the chance to meet you, but there will be other occasions and other places to meet, I hope!

  37. Hi Kristen and Jean-Marc,
    Looking forward to another good meal and wine tasting and to seeing you again, Jean-Marc. Thanks so much for picking a restaurant right in our neighborhood!!! You are welcome to stay here again, specially since we are so close to your venue!! That whole area is the new hip, up and coming dining area ( and theatre and arts ) in DC, and the chef there has a great reputation, so I’m sure it will be wonderful. Our only regret is that Kristi won’t be with you, a couple more years and the kids will be able to stay home alone… Grosses bises, Suzanne, Charlie and Lily

  38. Hi Kristen and Jean-Marc,
    Looking forward to another good meal and wine tasting and to seeing you again, Jean-Marc. Thanks so much for picking a restaurant right in our neighborhood!!! You are welcome to stay here again, specially since we are so close to your venue!! That whole area is the new hip, up and coming dining area ( and theatre and arts ) in DC, and the chef there has a great reputation, so I’m sure it will be wonderful. Our only regret is that Kristi won’t be with you, a couple more years and the kids will be able to stay home alone… Grosses bises, Suzanne, Charlie and Lily

  39. Dear friends,
    Thanks for your messages
    I understand frustrations about not visiting some areas. My problem is that I have 2 weeks to visit and that I need to focus on where we have business.
    In NC, we do have a great support but our importer will be in Europe when I am here. For MA, I met someone last who committed to buy but he somehow vanished (Grrr). In FL, despite my efforts, I could not find somebody…
    Cheers,

  40. Dear friends,
    Thanks for your messages
    I understand frustrations about not visiting some areas. My problem is that I have 2 weeks to visit and that I need to focus on where we have business.
    In NC, we do have a great support but our importer will be in Europe when I am here. For MA, I met someone last who committed to buy but he somehow vanished (Grrr). In FL, despite my efforts, I could not find somebody…
    Cheers,

  41. I am disappointed that you will not be anywhere near the lovely city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Perhaps you will consider our friendly city for the next trip. We are one of the “most liveable cities” in the nation, and we appreciate wine! Jackie

  42. I am disappointed that you will not be anywhere near the lovely city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Perhaps you will consider our friendly city for the next trip. We are one of the “most liveable cities” in the nation, and we appreciate wine! Jackie

  43. Adding my disappointment that you aren’t able to make it to the SF Bay area. Would have loved to meet you and taste your wine. The US is a big area to cover in two weeks. I respectively put in my request for a visit to the Bay area next year. Have safe travels! Cheers!

  44. Adding my disappointment that you aren’t able to make it to the SF Bay area. Would have loved to meet you and taste your wine. The US is a big area to cover in two weeks. I respectively put in my request for a visit to the Bay area next year. Have safe travels! Cheers!

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