NEWSLETTER KERMIT LYNCH – Novembre 2025

« THE RETURN OF ONE OF THE GREATS »

« Grape harvests happen once a year . . . except when they don’t. It’s rare, and in 2022, no grapes were brought in to make Domaine du Vieux Télégraphe’s flagship Châteauneuf-du-Pape La Crau. In mid-August, with harvest nearly in sight, a violent hailstorm and tornado touched down on this iconic, stony plateau, leaving no fruit behind. Leaves were shredded and grapes destroyed in a storm more typical of the American Midwest than France’s
Rhône Valley—the Brunier family, stewards of this land for six generations, had never experienced anything of this magnitude. »