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Gilles Reeb, in the basement of his restaurant . And for you, it will be 1988 or Petrus Mouton-Rothschild 1982? Photo Dom Poirier

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first to have called to congratulate him, it is André Ostertag, the field of the same name. As for the wine merchant Georges Henner, he preferred to spend in the flesh, a “small” gift under his arm: a closed-de-Beze 1976 Armand Rousseau. Ease. Stack as host locations, which welcomes you with a confusing kindness around a bottle of Pouilly-Fumé Silex late 2006 Didier Dagueneau (a marvel of purity and elegance, with bitter to die at the end of mouth).

Now then, Gilles Reeb, since it is that he is, has been awarded the trophy in 2014 for the best wine list in the Journal of Wine France (RVF for insiders). He succeeds in doing so, a Spanish restaurant (El Celler de Can Roca in 2012) and an Italian (La Ciau del Tornavento, 2013). “When people magazine came to announce the news to me just before Christmas, frankly, at first I thought they were laughing at me, says the boss of the restaurant Au gold dornachois Canon. It really is a great recognition of the work undertaken since my wife and I over the restaurant in January 2000. At the time, there was just fifty references cellar and nothing really exceptional … “

fifty references? Impossible to settle for true wine lovers, for whom “good meal” and “flat water” are hopelessly contradictory expressions. It is well known, Paul Claudel has had a mystical revelation behind a pillar of Notre-Dame de Paris. For Gilles Reeb, it happened at Lameloise (three Michelin stars), taken at a dinner with his colleagues at the time, when he worked in the kitchens of Gérard Kuehn (Ingersheim). “Twelve or 13 dishes and many wines … With each time a balance, an incredible deal! “Recalls the person, still moved by the memory, years later.

bottle is made to be drunk, it is necessary for people to have fun!

tours areas, cellars individuals, auctions, regular purchases from wine merchants experienced (George Henner, home Pawn, Georges Albert Aoust …) to build his dream cellar, Gilles Reeb has neglected no track. Fourteen years later, the result is preciously stored in a cool, three meters below the feet of the guests: 1200 references rather than 50, for a total number of bottles is around 10,000. Mostly French wines (“I’d have me around for me to gradually open to foreign wines,” concedes the restaurant), many old vintages (the oldest is a red Corton 1929 Domain Charles Vienot) and of great Bordeaux, Burgundy and Rhone wines wazoo: Petrus, Yquem, the task of Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, La Mouline, La Turque, La Landonne … Anyway, that very, very good, even the exceptional, and that from 20 € per bottle – for the “right price” is also one of the horses battles Gilles Reeb (Examples € 180 for a table Clos Vougeot 1947 and € 58 for a rock of Cambes? 2008 … What could be better?).

“I commented quietly concerned, I am not a man of money. I already earn my living with the restaurant, while wine is the icing on the cake. This is to give people access to the” best”. A bottle is made to be drunk, it is necessary for people to have fun! And then we, we’re just a support for winemakers, it’s them we should mention, not me. “

“This trophy RVF continues Gilles Reeb, we’ll probably see new customers … But I also hope it will allow me to fill in some gaps and get live wines fields prestigious as Jamet, Coche-Dury, Overnoy … An allocation of the DRC (Domaine de la Romanée-Conti)? I got one in 2006. But this year, we may finally have some of their Montrachet and Romanee-Conti. “

This is all the evil we wish him … But he reassured in advance with or without these two absolute legends, the card is already … Canon

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