Etiket: Vins
[Billet vins] Again and again Alain Brumont (yes!)
From a builder, he has become a ferryman. More than 45 years after the acquisition of the Bouscassé and Montus castles in this gourmet Great South-West where people feast, Alain…
[Billet vins] Mario Brossoit at L’Express: an outstanding host!
“My small business, does not know the crisis, blooming, she exhibits satiny treasures, golden as you wish…” This melody by the great Alain Bashung has been looping for nearly three…
[Billet vins] Establishments Jean-Pierre Moueix: Where Merlots are kings!
Bordeaux, Saint-Émilion and, to add to the beauty, not to say the sophisticated debauchery of the senses… Pomerol. Some houses have shone and distinguished themselves in these appellations since 1937,…
[Billet vins] The word in Chianti Classico (2nd part)
The incursion continues this week in the Chianti Classico appellation, with its essential Sangiovese grape variety. Among the 40 samples tasted blind — and as already mentioned in these same…
[Billet vins] A word from Chianti Classico
Nearly 40 samples of Chianti Classico were sent to the Duty by the agencies (which we thank by the way), just to mark the event Anteprime di Toscana held in…
[Billet vins] Laura and her Malbecs
My country is not a country, it’s… Malbec, sang Laura Catena during her visit to Quebec, both feet in a snow bank, but her head in Argentina, where the ancestor…
[Billet vins] A few words with Véronique Sanders from Château Haut-Bailly
The presentation of the Bordeaux primeurs of 2022 will take place next April. I don’t go there anymore, preferring to evaluate the vintages after they have been bottled 18 months…
[Billet vins] Escudo Rojo: The coat of arms of the Baroness
I have only met the Baroness Philippine de Rothschild once in Mouton, although her heart has always leaned towards Clerc Milon. It was around a lively conversation at the table,…
[Billet vins] Of words, robotics and perfumes
Asking the Web about the musky chardonnay that I know a little about having tasted in Ontario, I said to myself: let’s push intellectual laziness further, just to be comfortable…
[Billet vins] The Hillside of Wonders
The “table of stone” has stood guard for seven millennia already. This is also why it is not yet sold dolmens at IKEA. It takes more than that to break…
[Billet vins] This is not a grocery list
“Thank you, Monsieur Aubry, for tasting and spitting for me… for us… For the rest, for my part, thanks to you, we have moved to another level, that is, tasting…
[Billet vins] Being able to taste without… drinking?
It is possible, at least technically, to taste wine without drinking a drop of it. An aberration for some who will only see in it the illustration of a coitus…
[Billet vins] Our choice of sparkling wines under $50
All champagnes are sparkling, but not all sparkling are necessarily champagnes. Well, you already knew that. But can a sparkling wine be as good as a champagne? You don’t even…
[Billet vins] Cru gigondas: between north and south
The definition of the term “vitivinicultural terroir” adopted by the International Organization of Vine and Wine (OIV) in June 2010 refers to “a concept that refers to a space in…
[Billet vins] Of wines and days
The winegrowers, at least the ones I know, test wine every day. Seven days a week. And you who are not winegrowers? No doubt arrange your days like your wines…
[Billet vins] The ethical oath
My only oath goes to the wine and not to the king. You have to be in solidarity with yourself. No prevarication or any possible entubation, unless you are one…
France Bleu supports the producers of our region at the Salon des Vins de La Loire at Trois Vignobles.
France Bleu Saint-Etienne Loire supports local products and the 33 winegrowers who will be present to make you discover their wines during the wine fair at 3 vineyards at the…
[Billet des vins] Varietal wine as an alphabet
The term “varietal wine” will undoubtedly appear as a pleonasm for some. This, even if there is also tomato, honey or atoca wine. Doesn’t the grape variety, that is to…
[Billet vins] The white | The duty
One has the impression of sitting at the bistro with Olivier Merlin savoring his Chardonnay which, although simple in expression, compensates with an extraordinary generosity. The fruity line (vineyard peach,…
[Billet vins] The Surprise | The duty
This family estate, of which Lucille and Mélanie are worthy ambassadors today, offers a blanquette in the spirit of what the Champagne house Moët & Chandon offered in the 1920s,…