Hints and tips:
...He notes that “pricing certainly isn’t keeping pace with the Côte de Beaune....
...I asked him how he’d felt afterwards. He grimaced. He’d had to leave promptly to get a train to Liverpool. All I had to do was walk home and slump in a chair....
...Fun and transparent. £16.50 Lea & Sandeman Dom Borie la Vitarèle 2022 La Cuvée des Cigales 2022 IGP Pays d’Hérault (13%)Expressive and interesting Grenache/Syrah blend. Obviously terroir-driven....
...The rest — Napoleon setting foot in Egypt, scenes from Robinson Crusoe (Le Petit Robinson), intrepid balloonists adrift or voguish chinoiserie — met the demand for topical scenes....
...Wine magazine La Revue du Vin de France and my website can provide useful pointers. The same is true of Roussillon, the generally hotter, Catalan wine region just north of the Pyrenees....
...Names such as Beaumont, Belle-Vue, Le Boscq, Cambon La Pelouse, Charmail, Clement Pichon, Deyrem Valentin, Lilian Ladouys, Malescasse, Moulin Rouge, Noaillac, Patache d’Aux, Paveil de Luze, Petit Bocq, Peyrabon...
...Maybe a Blanc de Blancs, which tends to be a bit zippier than a full-bodied champagne, or an extra brut, which revels in being bone-dry....
...Hedonistic.£23 Wine Treasury, D Vine Cellars Domaine Denis Carré, 2020 Bourgogne Hautes Côtes de Beaune (13%)An affordable white burgundy. Lightly nutty....
...I may have qualified as a Master of Wine and have been immersed in wine professionally since 1975 but I’d never style myself an “expert”....
...I’d never heard of Marion-Bosser before. Google gave the house a 4.8 and its Premier Cru gets a 4.2 rating on Vivino....
...Vins, had made L’Estabel a 2023 vigneron de l’année....
...Maison des Ardoisières “Silice” Blanc 2020 (Savoie, France) I’d say, “Ardoisières Silice, please.” I’m picking out what makes that wine distinctive....
...The late oenology professor Denis Dubourdieu of the University of Bordeaux then opened the door to his long and illustrious list of French clients, including Ch Latour, Ch d’Yquem and Domaine de la Romanée-Conti...
...They’d always loved the light in Provence, and favoured the Mediterranean over the Atlantic where Isabelle’s childhood holidays were spent....
...De La Espada Head to the contemporary art gallery Amelie Maison d’Art on rue Séguier to peruse designs by French designer Anthony Guerrée, alongside a curated collection of abstract art....
...(The holding company Domaine Barons de Rothschild is not famous in the wine world for undercharging.)...
...The legendary DJ Readers Wifes will kick matters off from 3pm. 11 August; from £31, heritagelive.net Glyndebourne Festival, Lewes, East SussexDon Giovanni, Semele, Dialogues des Carmélites, L’elisir d’amore...
...She’d first read the 17th-century novelist as a teenager, in Samuel Putnam’s (then new) translation....
...from 12-year-old vines at 1,800m “in the middle of nowhere” (in fact, Cosío in Aguascalientes); a very creditable riposte to champagne; a sophisticated Sauvignon Blanc based on a certified clone from Ch d’...
...Esporão and Howard’s Folly are also producing exciting wine in Alentejo, as are Quinta do Crasto and Quinta de la Rosa in the Douro....
...He explained how his first professional wine trip was to Piemonte in 2003 with Marc de Grazia of Tenuta delle Terre Nere in Sicily, who was then advising Justerinis on Italian wine....
...Recently divorced from Marion Ravenwood and freshly retired from Hunter College, he is finally ready to hang up that famous fedora....
...Things are also fraught between Marion and their neighbour Christine De Haas, a once successful painter who moved from Paris a quarter of a century ago so she didn’t have to talk about her art....
...Rouge 2020 Pays d’Oc 14%Mark Savage MW blends this, and an equally good white version, with great care every year....
...That old lesson played out again last month as French director Justine Triet won the Cannes Palme d’Or for courtroom drama Anatomy of a Fall....
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