Conversations with Kermit
At home in Provence with America’s sage importer
This summer I had the pleasure of checking in with my comrade in words, Kermit Lynch, the California wine importer-cum-musician and writer who now lives full-time near Bandol.
The occasion was the release of Kermit’s first novel, but the conversation veered from Kermit’s fascinating history of starting a Berkeley wine shop during the economic crisis of the 1970s to today’s wine crisis. As usual Kermit was full of opinions about overtechnical enologists, the wine and food scene, the America he left behind and the (not great) state of French restaurants.
Read part 1 of the interview here. And look for Part 2 this week at winespectator.com.
