On one of our many trips to Louisville, we went to a French Bistro Les Relais.  It is in a historic airport terminal at Bowman field.  Charles Lindbergh even landed at Bowman field in the twenties.   The restaurant has the feeling of Rick’s Café Americain from the cinema classic Casablanca.

There was a wonderful menu of updated classic bistro selections from appetizers right through to dessert.  I had the Chef’s selection that evening which was focused around duck compote, and my Bride had Chilean Sea Bass.

Our wine selection was Beringer Alluvium Knights Valley.  The vintage has been lost to me, but the label has a featured spot on one of the walls in my cellar.  Knights Valley has its own AVA designation and Beringer did a great job with this Meritage wine.  Alluvium is actually a word to describe loose soil, and I am sure that this must describe the terrain of the vineyards that the grapes came from.  I also am a great fan of the names that the some of the vintners come up with for their wines, when they are not members of the Meritage Association.  If that had belonged to the association the wine would have been labeled “Meritage.”  This was an excellent Bordeaux blended wine, that one does not always encounter even on great wine lists.  If you get the chance to try this wine, you will not be disappointed