2010
Didier & Châteauneuf-du-Pape
The IW&FS Toronto Branch hosted an Dinner at Didier.
Our finding are recorded below. So please read on...
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“Didier & CNP”
March 23, 2010
Date: Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Time: 6:30P.M. - 10:30 P.M.
Event: Membership Tasting & Dinner CNP
Location: Didier Restaurant
1496 Yonge Street, Toronto, ON
647-260-0830
Didier’s web Information
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>>Heads up IWFS Mar232010.pdf >>
This IW&FS event was very well attended with 24. WOW what dinner and WOW WHAT WINE! This is one of the all time great Toronto Restaurants and Classic French.
The number of pleats in a Chef’s hat is the number of ways he/she knows how to cook an egg. Didier Lerou proved his metal with the opening salvo of a coddled egg, which included siting on a bed of fois-gras steamed is a sauce for dying over ‘Oeuf en Cocotte Périgourdine’. As I am thinking about the dinner and how lovely is was I want to do it all over again.
Châteauneuf-du-Pape translates as "New Castle of the Pope," and indeed, the history of this commune 
and its wine is firmly entwined with papal history. In 1308, Pope Clement V, former Archbishop of Bordeaux, relocated the papacy to the city of Avignon. Clement V and subsequent "Avignon Popes" were said to be great lovers of wine and did much to promote it during the seventy-year duration of the Avignon Papacy. At the time, winegrowing around the town of Avignon was anything but illustrious. While the Avignon Papacy did much to advance the reputation of wines from Burgundy, the papacy also promoted viticulture in the surrounding area, more specifically the area 5–10 km north of Avignon, close to the banks of the Rhône River. Prior to the Avignon Papacy, viticulture of the area had been initiated and maintained by the Bishops of Avignon, largely for local consumption.
Clement V was succeeded by John XXII, who regularly drank the wines from the vineyards to the north, as well as Burgundy wine, and did much to improve viticultural practices there. Under John XXII, the wines of this area came to be known as "Vin du Pape"; this term later became Châteauneuf-du-Pape. John XXII is also responsible for erecting the famous castle that stands as a symbol for the appellation.
