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Old Jun 10, 2007 | 9:51 am
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slawecki
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Originally Posted by Gaucho100K
Hi Slawecki-- do you have a website or some other info where I can look into Mr. Kacher? Thanks.
from the distributor site:

http://www.europeancellars.com/parke...-importers.cfm

for himself:

http://www.robertkacherselections.com/

he is based in dc, lives in gigondas(as I recall).

dc is unique in the US in that it does NOT have a required 3 tier system, so kacher serves as both importer and distributor of his wines. to my knowledge, he does no retail. DC retailers frequently have his wines for less than distributors in other states(essentially none of his wines are sold in maryland for this reason).

he became financially stable with the creation and production(exclusive importation?) of Domain de Pouy, a cheap white made from 80% Ugni Blanc(pinot blanc, trebbiano) of armagnac. goes for $5.00 a bottle retail in dc. about 10 years ago, sat with his wife. she told me how many cases of that stuff he imported. something beyond comprehension. maybe 10,000 cases a year.

http://www.sopowine.com/pouy.html

DC/VA area has two other people who do a lot of Argentinian wine importing. Harrison Jones, and Fran Kysela

http://www.whimports.net/


http://www.kysela.com/

Last edited by slawecki; Jun 10, 2007 at 9:58 am Reason: add 2 importers
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