Wine Tasting, Vineyards, in France

Jo Landron (Muscadet, Loire)

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:57:52 +0100

Jo Landron picking lamb's lettuce (on Fief du Breil) La Haie Fouassière, Muscadet (Loire) I don't underline enough how the vineyard and the soils are alive in most of the artisanal wine farms profiled here. At Jo Landron's ike at...

Mai & Kenji Hodgson (Anjou, Loire)

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:04:07 +0100

Kenji & Mai Hodgson in their chai Rablay-sur-Layon, Anjou (Loire) This is a beautiful story at the crossroads of British Columbia (Canada), Japan and Anjou in the Loire, which brought Kenji and Mai in this beautiful village of Anjou (As...

Bernard Baudry (Chinon, Loire)

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 08:42:36 +0100

Bernard & Matthieu Baudry (with Clos Guillot 2010) Cravant-les-Coteaux (Chinon, Loire) Chinon is sometimes decried as a region with uninteressing Cabernet Franc wines, as Chinon was known to be in the past the basic wine served in the Paris bistrots,...

Domaine Breton visit (Bourgueuil, Loire)

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:53:38 +0100

Pierre opening an Avis de Vin Fort Domaine Catherine & Pierre Breton, Bourgeuil (Loire) Short january visit along the Loire at Domaine Breton, in Cabernet Franc country... Winter visits at vignerons help have an opinion about the current vintage whereabouts,...

Drunkards (les Poivrots)

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 18:46:10 +0100

Caption : Ah ! si je bois, c'est pour me saoûler, non pour boire."If I drink, this is to get drunk, not to drink" L'Assiette au Beurre (july 27 1907) : Les Poivrots When a whole issue of a satirical...

Nicolas Carmarans (Aveyron)

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:22:46 +0100

Nicolas Carmarans in his Le Mauvais Temps vineyard Campouriez (Aveyron) The Aveyron is an austere but beautiful mountainous region full of fortified villages, medieval castles and old stone bridges across rivers that you imagine abundant in fish population. You drive...

Domaine Plageoles (Gaillac)

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 14:21:34 +0100

Bernard Plageoles in his veil-wines cask room Cahuzac-sur-Vère (Tarn, south west France) The rebirth of a wine Appellation can sometimes be triggered by the strong will of a lone grower, and that is certainly the case for the Gaillac wines...

Mobile Distillery in Puisaye

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 19:16:49 +0100

Régis' mobile distillery, in the middlle of a village Somewhere in the Puysaye (northern Burgundy) The Puysaye is a region sitting at the limit of Burgundy (Yonne département), the Loire and the Nivernais. It's name has Celtic origins, meaning in...

Wine News (45)

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 17:41:59 +0100

Fred Cossard pouring This was on boulevard Haussmann in Paris, at the autumn Burgundy tasting organized by Caves Augé in november. Some 10 outstanding winemakers were pouring their wines for a free tasting outside the shop on the sidewalk. Great...

Wine in France in the 1930s (Winemaking)

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 18:41:52 +0100

Press in Gevrey-Chambertin (Burgundy, circa 1930) Click & enlarge Here is the second part on this story on French wineries in the 1930s'. Images sometimes speak more than texts, and many of these pictures shot in or around wineries in...

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