Etiket: Vins
[Les vins de la semaine] Montaudon Brut Tradition, Champagne, France
Quality and price seem to have come together in this cuvée where the “blacks” dominate, leaving the Chardonnay (15%) to turn their heads in a fruity ballet that lacks neither…
[Les vins de la semaine] Montesecondo 2021, Tuscany, Italy
I met Silvio Messana too briefly at the restaurant L’Express last week with this impression that, if it is the man who makes the wine, the wine is also the…
[Billet vins] In Pachino, the land of nero d’avola
The incursion into Puglia here on May 9 with the Negroamaro grape variety naturally invites you to move towards the final southern borders of Italy, at about the same latitude…
[Les vins de la semaine] Condrieu 2021, Gaillard family, Rhône, France
A soft light halos this Viognier and ensures a fine and evocative diffusion where fresh apricot, nutmeg, pear, honey and Meyer lemon enrich a texture to make you dream in…
[Billet vins] Saint Bris “Mont Embrasé” 2020, Domaine Bersan, Burgundy, France
The climbing is done here with a verticality that will make you dizzy as this electrifying Sauvignon keeps bouncing on the palate. Its calcareous subsoil provides it with the spring…
[Billet vins] Lirac 2020, Chateau Mont-Redon, Rhone, France
I was sipping this red on a squash and bacon risotto and I said to myself that this blend, of which the Grenache Noirs make up most of it, shone…
[Billet vins] Windmill “Very Old Vines Les Caves” 2020, Anita Kuhnel, Beaujolais, France
This place called “Les Caves” on the hillsides is, it seems, the pride of Anita. This so-called “capital” sin invites two others, namely gluttony and the desire (to own this…
[Billet vins] El Coto 2022, Rioja, Spain
This very dry verdejo, to which we have left the distant memory of a small curling hint, will already be able to stand very well on the ceviches and other…
[Billet vins] Chateau Laville 2018, Sauternes, Bordeaux, France
On the side of Preignac, not far from Ciron, whose hygrometric largesse favors the development of the famous noble rot, the lascivious semillons of this sweet wine are draped here…
[Billet vins] Demoiselle de Sociando-Mallet 2020, Haut-Médoc, Bordeaux, France
At the top of the Médoc, where the vines watch over the river like others their first amorous rendezvous, the Merlots and Cabernets of Jean and, now, of Sylvie Gautreau…
[Billet vins] The Cassagnes of La Nerthe 2021, Rhone, France
The poor man’s white Châteauneuf-du-Pape? You will enrich yourself in contact with it, because this dry white is neither skimpy on the fruitiness nor on the emotion released. It also…
[Billet vins] Cotes-du-Rhone 2020, Mathilde Chapoutier, Rhone, France
It appears that the cuvées without added sulfur rebound like a fruity spring which is difficult to contain all the liveliness and relaxation assumed, as if nothing altered their outspokenness.…
[Billet vins] Côtes du Jura “Les Sarres” 2019, Rijckaert, Jura, France
Because of its integrated maturing, but also because of this happy contact of the fine lees where the Savagnin basks here, one quickly has the impression of frequenting a Chardonnay…
[Billet vins] Leyda 2021, Leyda Valley, Chile
Kiwi, celery, cilantro, green apple, green asparagus, grapefruit and white pepper are just some of the aromatic molecules that, coupled with the Asian salad named Singapore Slaw, by chef Susur…
[Billet vins] João Portugal Ramos Loureiro Vinho Verde 2021, Portugal
If lobster season is there to squeeze your claw, this very dry loureiro is there to make it swim upstream of all possible and imaginable thirsts. The fruitiness is clean…
[Billet vins] The gender fluidity of “black nepinolo”
The terms “masculine” and “feminine” have become, at least as metaphorical entities to describe wine, words on the index today. Is it barely still socially tolerated, but only with the…
[Billet vins] Hide those tannins that you can’t drink
We drink a sip of wine and there it slips in the mouth too often without our knowledge, by distraction or under the influence of a conversation which finds in…
[Billet vins] No gray areas for black glass
Tasting is a matter of context. The same wine tasted at the same time in 43 different time zones by an equal number of participants is likely to be interpreted…
[Billet vins] Legends and reality in Burgundy
Does Burgundy fascinate you with its terroirs? You are not at the end of your discoveries! It does not escape the legends, but neither does it escape this contemporary intellectual…
[Billet vins] Do you know what you drink?
If you’re reading this column, it’s because you’re drinking wine, not a glass of milk. As Gabin so aptly said: “I will drink milk when the cows eat grapes!” »…