Passed away during a meal with friends and drinking a Pommard Rugiens 1999 according to the news article.
Really sad to hear this 
! I have some mid 80’s gems from him that I need to dig out and share soon.
I was very sad to hear this, too. Hubert de Montille was an interesting man who made some excellent wines.
I hope the 99 Rugiens he was drinking was his own; I have a few bottles in my locker, and I will toast him with one.
Yes, sad news. He was such a character, I always enjoyed reading about him.
Last night, we very much enjoyed a 2004 de Montille Puligny-Montrachet Cailleret.
Also, ironically, yesterday I took delivery of a 1999 de Montille Rugiens. I must take it to our next dinner, so we can toast his memory!
My condolences to Etienne and all those at Montille.
Enjoyed his interview in Mondovino and love the wines!
RIP Hubert, condolences to his friends and family.
I, for one, am “content” at his death.
Yup. Me, too.
+2. I’m surprised to see all this outpouring of love for him.
what you guys weren’t bff??? ;p.
Never met the man. The comment to Rovani always struck me as something that was most likely intended to really piss of someone who had been lambasting him for years more than a sincere belief.
His wines have been some of my great burgundy experiences. I remember an other wordly puligny caillerets and the reds from the late eighties and early nineties are special. I have a '76 volnay 1er cru that I’ve been planning to open with a buddy that I’m incredibly excited about.
Etienna and Alix are, by all accounts, wonderful people. I feel for them. Comments expressing happiness at anyone’s death strike me as tacky.
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probably a little less tacky then expressing "content"ment after thousands died in a terrorist act.
Agreed - both tacky, one probably less so than the other but probably just by a little.
yeah I don’t think so. I think being satisfied over one of the deadliest terrorist attacks on American soil is far more insulting/tacky than people refusing to celebrate his life after his death because of said comments.
I was being facetious in reponse to your comment. I’m not condemning what anyone said. But being content over his death is tacky.
Yes, great wines that were unique - low alcohol, dry and everlasting. Will definitely have one to toast to the man. Not sure of his exact comments at the meal he was at with Parker but if I am correct they were insensitive but true.
^the comments that people are referring to are de montille telling Pierre Rovani that he was content after 9-11. There is a long history that precedes it and another back-and-forth after it, but that comment, which he undoubtedly made, is what I think people in this thewad are referring to.
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Wow. True? Wow.
my first reaction as well, I’ll give Mike the benefit of the doubt for now as he did say “dinner with parker” so maybe he doesn’t know what everyone else is talking about.