
“It wasn’t just local foods that were celebrated last night at President Obama’s first state dinner. The menu also featured a Virginia wine. The president, his guest of honor, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, and invited members of D.C.’s elite washed down pumpkin pie tart and pear tatin with Thibaut-Janisson blanc de chardonnay, from the Monticello district near Charlottesville.”
—The Washington Post

“It wasn’t just local foods that were celebrated last night at President Obama’s first state dinner. The menu also featured a Virginia wine. The president, his guest of honor, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, and invited members of D.C.’s elite washed down pumpkin pie tart and pear tatin with Thibaut-Janisson blanc de chardonnay, from the Monticello district near Charlottesville.”
—The Washington Post
Claude Thibaut
“Quelle chance! In 2003, France’s Claude Thibaut made Virginia his home, and, lucky for us, he brought along his native Champagne region’s expertise in sparkling wines.”