"Charlie Hebdo winemaker" in conference in Brooklyn

They are the type to think that wine is too serious a matter to leave it "To the boring specialists" and the life too short not to savor it with full sip. Dominique Hutin, columnist journalist at France Inter in particular, and Gerard Descrambe, winemaker at St Emilion, have made a book, "Grand Cru declassed". They will be the star guests of an original day presented at the Invisible Dog in Brooklyn, dedicated to the house that publishes them, Editions de l'Epure, and more widely to the kitchen and its adventurers.

The book of Hutin and Descrambe is subtitled: "Appellation Charlie-Hara Kiri controlled", because it first tells the singular history of winemaker Descrambe and the band of crazy Hara Kiri then Charlie Hebdo. "It started in the early 1970s, says Dominique Hutin. Gérard, son of a winemaker who had sworn never to do this "Business of con", found himself recalled to St Emilion to help his winemaker father ". The father in question was a pioneer of organic and natural wine at the time when the name said nothing to anyone. In search of a little pub, the son sends a letter to Hara Kiri "Because at the time it was the only newspaper that was interested in organic". He proposes to ship wine for free. The response letter from Professor Choron, the founder of the magazine, is in two lines: "Go and send 60 bottles and the best".

To thank him, the designer Reiser sends Descrambe a label to stick on his bottles. The designers of Hara Kiri then Charlie will keep this habit and build up over the years a collection of wine labels imprinted with a distinction and unparalleled finesse, signed Gbe, Cavanna, Carli, Lefred Touron, Willem, Charb , Tignous, Wolinski …

Over the years, and cash payments sponged together during the famous rue de Bièvre meal, Gerard Descrambe became the official winemaker of Charlie's band. January 7, 2015, the day of the attack, so he has like many others, lost many friends. And concluded that it was necessary to continue to laugh, and to love the wine.

The program of the day "Editions of Epure @ Invisible Dog":

12pm: "Les Editions de l'Epure, a singular brand", with Sabine Buquet-Grenet, co-founder of the publishing house.

1:30 pm: "Grand Cru Unclassified. An editorial adventure ", with Gérard Descrambe and Dominique Hutin

3-5PM: Farmer Market with Treiber Farms.

6pm
"Do you speak wine? The words of wine, a living language to the taste of the time ": lecture by Dominique Hutin

7-9pm: Happy Hours, with a Franco-Swiss cheese competition