Saturday, March 16, 2019

A Wine Importer for the People: Kermitt Lynch

One of our guest speakers mentioned she trusts any bottle imported by Kermitt Lynch, and lo and behold, I noticed his name on the back of the $15 Domaine de Fontsainte rose that we'd brought back from a local Oakland wine shop.

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So who is Kermit Lynch? Lynch has a wine shop in Berkeley and imports only from small, family-owned estates in Italy and France that use traditional winemaking methods. He has 150 producers in his stable, and estimates that he adds one producer to his portfolio for every 100 that he visits. Though not a staunch advocate of natural or biodynamic wines, he was one of the first to champion techniques used in natural winemaking, e.g., no filtration. Most importantly for us, the majority of his portfolio is under $25 per bottle retail.


What's his wine of choice? "Fresh, young whites - I'm on a Vermentino kick," he says. 




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