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I'm Claudine. Born in the UK to Jamaican parents, raised in Canada, lived in New York, and now anchored in Lisbon. Which means I grew up without anyone telling me what wine was supposed to taste like. My palate was trained on my mother's cooking, on Jamaican rum culture (which has more terroir expressiveness than most Champagne houses would admit), on the aggressive seasonality of Canadian winters and the layered food culture of New York. By the time I landed in Portugal and started seriously exploring wine, I wasn't a student of it. I was someone who already knew how to taste. That distinction matters.
Portugal made it easy to fall in love. Here, a bottle of extraordinary wine doesn't have to break the bank. It's just Tuesday. You're at a little restaurant in Mouraria and the house wine is genuinely better than anything you paid a fortune for elsewhere. You're at a market in the Alentejo and someone hands you a glass of Vinho de Talha, made in clay pots the same way it's been made for two thousand years, and your entire understanding of what wine can be quietly rearranges itself. In Portugal, the choice between water and wine is almost philosophical. Wine usually wins.
The Léger Guide is what I wanted to read and couldn't find. Not a score. Not a panel verdict. Not another publication telling you which Grand Cru to invest in. Something that follows wine into the world it opens. The meal it was made for. The person who made it. The landscape it carries. The mood it creates at nine in the evening when everything else has quieted down. Wine as a passport to sensory experience rather than a destination in itself. That's what we're building here, together with the most interesting winemakers, artists, chefs, perfumers and musicians we can find.
The name is Léger. In French it means light. It also happens to be mine. Make of that what you will.
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