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Domaine de La SolitudeSeated & Guided Tasting with Michael BouchardWhen: Thursday, September 9, 6 pm at Wine Republic*free wine club members  |  $20 non members The Lançon family, owners of Domaine de la Solitude, descend directly from the 12th Century Barberini family of Rome. The best known of the family, Maffeo Barberini, was a papal nuncio, or diplomatic representative, in Paris from 1604 to 1606, and was made Pope in Rome under the name Pope Urban VIII. Two of his nephews became cardinals and a part of the family then settled down in Avignon. In the 1980s, brothers Michel and Jean Lançon took the future of...