Robert Houde Wines, LLC

It’s that time of year when new arrivals show up from hard work done in the Spring. New producer to the RHW champagne line up! Delicious!

Who wants to win a mixed case of the great 2021 wines from Hofgut Falkenstein?! As part of the upcoming RieslingKenner 3rd Annual Falkenstein vintage tasting, we decided to offer an unbelievable opportunity, so we will raffle off 12 bottles of 2021 all in the name of charity!
Here is how it will work:
Donate $25 to The Trotter Project and you will qualify for one raffle entry and a chance to win! If you want to donate more, or just want a better chance to win, donate more! Please donate in increments of $25 and we will add the appropriate number of raffle tickets to the draw.
The Trotter Project donation link:

https://www.thetrotterproject.org/donate

We will track the donations in connection with The Trotter Project, but please send us a receipt of your donation via DM or to our email at:

[email protected]

That will help us keep track and make sure no one misses out on the chance to win this amazing prize!
Think of it! Only $25 for 12 bottles of these amazing wines! We will do the draw on Sunday, October 23 before our big tasting event. Once a winner is selected we will either hand the wines off to the winner at the event or set up and handle shipping to our lucky winner (US only).

Please don’t miss the tasting as it will be an awesome chance to taste through some truly special wines in a way not offered anywhere else’s in the world! Get your tickets to the tasting here: https://www.easydoes.it/events/rieslingkenner.
Two great ways to try these wines and two great ways to support The Trotter Project and their important mission!

Join us for The RieslingKenner 3rd Annual Hofgut Falkenstein Vintage tasting! You will have the opportunity to taste through 23 different micro bottlings from the incredible 2021 vintage made by the highly sought after Hofgut Falkenstein. There is no other tasting like this in the world! If you are a Riesling lover, heck if you are a wine lover, you can't miss this tasting!

We are so excited to be hosted by Easy Does It and to have the opportunity to support The Trotter Project in connection with Robert Houde Wines. This is what RieslingKenner is all about - Bringing people together through the vehicle of Riesling and helping those in need along the way. The Trotter Project ( https://www.thetrotterproject.org/ ), in memory of the great Charlie Trotter, works to strengthen community education, access, and connection to fresh, healthy food, culinary and hospitality innovators, and food producers.

Please join us at Easy Does It ( https://www.easydoes.it/ ) on Sunday, October 23. Come and enjoy the racy beautiful wines of Hofgut Falkenstein, the tasting starts at 5pm. Please follow the link below to purchase your tickets. Limited spots available, so please don't wait to reserve your spot!

Purchase tickets here:
https://www.easydoes.it/events/rieslingkenner

Happy New Year! We have updated our catalog. Please visit www.sevenfifty.com/roberthoudewines

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Caterina Dei overlooking her Bossona vineyard, walking the cellar catwalk, the cellar, travertine you see all over the property (the other family business), and the accidental cellar amphitheater to perfectly showcase her beautiful singing voice.

@ Cantine Dei

ONE WEEK FROM TODAY! See you all on Monday, April 2 at Bad Hunter for our Spring tasting!

Sara Perez of Venus La Universal in Montsant, and Dominique Moreau of Marie Courtin Champagne are in good company here!

15 Women in Wine to Watch From all corners of the globe, here are the names you want to know.

To all our wonderful customers: We will not be making deliveries on Friday the 25th. Please place your orders by 4:30 today for Wednesday delivery. Happy Thanksgiving everyone! [email protected] or contact your sales rep.

Please note we will not be making deliveries on Friday the 25th! Any orders for the weekend need to be placed today by 4:30pm. Thanks to all our wonderful customers and we wish you a Happy Thanksgiving! [email protected] or contact your sales rep.

Tomorrow! See You There.

We are having a tasting at 1st Ward Events at Chop Shop on October 24th from 12-4pm! We'll be there with Lagniappe Beverage & Hospitality and Simple Farmer Wines, and it's going to be OFS.

RSVP to Sarah at [email protected]!

Monday! 👇🏼

Terre Nere has our Instagram password all week! Follow along

We are having a tasting at 1st Ward Events at Chop Shop on October 24th from 12-4pm! We'll be there with Lagniappe Beverage & Hospitality and Simple Farmer Wines, and it's going to be OFS.

RSVP to Sarah at [email protected]!

Much better to have our exciting producers run our feed!!!

Harvest is starting! This Monday - Friday watch what happens in the vineyards and cellar of Champagne Pierre Paillard, as brothers Quentin and Antoine Paillard completely take over our Instagram feed. Follow us there and

Harvest is starting! This Monday - Friday watch what happens in the vineyards and cellar of Champagne Pierre Paillard, as brothers Quentin and Antoine Paillard completely take over our Instagram feed. Follow us there and

Quentin Paillard of Pierre Paillard Champagne in Bouzy Talks Family Tradition and New Winemaking... It’s the story of two brothers, the eight generation in their family’s Pierre Paillard Champagne legacy, dating back to 1768.  Quentin, along with his brother Antoine, under the guidance of their father Benoit, are committed to growing organic grapes, 60% of which are Pinot Noir, located on 11 hecta...

Thank you, North Pond, for including Venus la Universal D.O.Montsant on your "Women in Wine" list! So cool!

Nice looking box from Champagne Nowack!

Meet Sébastien, one of the three brothers (Pascale, Philippe and Sébastien) who tend to Champagne Mouzon-Leroux's 10 hectares located predominantly in Grand Cru Verzy. Yes, they're also new to our portfolio, but Mouzon-Leroux is no secret in Europe, leaving only a very small amount of wine in our first offering. (Don't worry, we're hoping for more in the Fall!)

Although there are bits and pieces in Verzenay, Ludes and Villers-Marmery, the wines are informed by the contrasting east/west composition in Verzy which includes a lot of Chardonnay, as does Villers-Marmery.

As with so many others of his generation, Sébastien is thoughtful in the vineyards and the cellars. We were shocked at the amount of healthy cover crop thriving in between the vines in Verzy. It had been a relatively warm winter so far, but in contrast to his neighbors there was knee high growth in January! And what a mix of vegetation it is. They have even planted shrubs and trees in the vineyards to help break the mono-culture. Bio practices are adhered to, including teas. They have also made new plantings of the “archaic” varieties in Champagne to expand their holdings of Arbanne, Petit Meslier, Pinot Gris, and Pinot Blanc.

The cellar has the telltale signs of ongoing experimentation. There are many types and sizes of barrels and tanks, and also terracotta and concrete eggs. The wines ferment themselves and ML happens which helps to lower the sulfur use later. There is a texture aided by wood, but never detected in the wines.

The L’atavique is 55% Pinot Noir and 45% Chardonnay fermented 25% in oak. Our batch is the 2012 base with 35% reserve wine of the three preceding vintages. It is an Extra Brut with 3 g/l dosage. We also got just enough Rosé to fill a suitcase, and we’d be happy to busk for more, if it would work! L’incandescent is a 100% Pinot Noir Rosé de Saignée fermented half in wood, all 2012 vintage with 3.5 g/l dosage.

We would love to tell you more, so please don't hesitate to ask! And of course, you'll have a chance to taste Mouzon-Leroux and our other new Champagne at our June 13th Champagne tasting.

This is Aurélien Suenen, another new addition to our Champagne portfolio. After working towards becoming a professional basketball player, Aurélien returned home in the early 2000's with a renewed interest in his family’s winery, working closely with his father until his father's death in 2009. Having already begun to implement changes in the vineyards and the cellars, he quickly banned herbicides, and more natural, healthy approaches were taken in all aspects of the winery. Thoughtful, philosophical, and opinionated, Aurélien has strong ideas about quality of life that are reflected in his approach in creating his Champagne Suenen.

The still wines from 2015 made a fascinating tasting, and early disgorgements of the single vineyard wines point toward an incredible future that will place Suenen in the very top echelon of growers in Champagne, of this we are sure.

We have just a small amount of his Brut Réserve and Brut Rosé, and an even smaller amount of his Millésimé Grand Cru 2008 (which definitely lives up to the hype surrounding this great vintage). Want to know more? Just ask us!

Champagne Marguet is new to our portfolio, but the family has been in Champagne for a very long time. Benoît Marguet's forefather Émile correctly predicted the outbreak of phylloxera in Champagne in the late 19th century, but he did so almost a decade too soon and the decision and subsequent ridicule bankrupted the operation. The nearly 90 hectares of the Marguet family were sold to Henriot. Later, Benoît’s father married into the Bonnerave family, a grower producer since 1905, and created the Charles Marguet label. Eventually that was renamed Marguet Père et Fils, and Benoît made the wines there from 1999 on.

However, all of the vineyards belonged to Bonnerave, and Benoît was required to purchase fruit from his parents, neighbors (which he farmed), other family members and other growers around Champagne who he respected for their organic work. In 2008 he was able to purchase 8.5 ha of vineyards for Marguet from Bonnerave and the long dry spell of Marguet ownership in Champagne ended.

Benoît is certified Demeter and Agence Bio. He does not simply pick and choose amongst various disciplines and utilize up to the point it is convenient, or safe. He is very earnest and focused on the smallest details, and adamant about the value in certification. He decries bio-dynamics when it is a selectively practiced fe**sh in our industry. In all fairness, he has gone to incredible expense to build Marguet back up as a small négociant, buying the most expensive organic fruit that met his demands and has converted now all of his production to bio-dynamic. He has horses that work all 10 of his hectares now, and employs very little sulphur in the cellar. The wines are made in barrels, and all choose to go through malo. Benoît prefers liquor for the dosage, but insists on always making it the day prior so it does not oxidize, and he doesn’t have to utilize any sulphur to keep it from doing so.

We have four wines in our first offering. Three are from Benoit's property in Ambonnay, and the fourth is a blend of purchased fruit from a small handful of the most dedicated organic/bio growers in all of Champagne including Chardonnay from Leclapart, Meunier from Laval, and Pinot Noir from Lahaye (Bouzy).

Please help us welcome Champagne Marguet to our portfolio, and don't hesitate to ask if you'd like to know more!

This is Aurélie Masson and Loïc Barrat from Champagne Barrat-Masson. Their ECOCERT Certified Organic 7 ha of vineyards are located in Bethon in Villenauxe-la-Grande, in the very southwestern tip of the Côte de Sézanne. Aurélie is the winemaker, and she is meticulous in her process. The wines are structured and fresh. They do not promote malo, and rarely use dosage. Barrat-Masson is planted to 90% Chardonnay, but when you run into Pinot Noir in the the Sézanne, it can be really great. One of the three wines we carry, Grain d’argile, is 50/50 Chardonnay and Pinot. The other two are from 100% Chardonnay. Fleur de Craie is from chalk parcels, its name meaning Flower of Chalk. Les Margannes, a couer de cuvee, is given 30 months sur lattes and is unequivocally one of the best 2011's we have tasted. Please help us welcome them to our portfolio, and come taste their wines on June 13th!

Tomorrow (Monday) 12-3pm at Sociale Chicago! Sure, we're calling it a Rosé tasting, but we'll be pouring many other things white, red and sparkling, including these new gems!