How would you pair French wine with braised abalone? A year after Hong Kong scrapped a 40 percent tax on wine, sales are booming, and the territory is positioning itself as the wine capital of Asia. Published on http://wine.the-world-in-focus.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Drink This: Wine Made Simple (Hardcover) by Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl Product Description Ever been baffled by a wine list, stood [...]
OK, if it weren't already obvious that we should be taking a winter jaunt to Paris, here we have yet another Paris hotel package deal that sounds, well, délicieuse . And that's not because of its sexy hotel name. This time the package revolves around something we find it very hard to resist: French wine. This month is all about Beaujolais Nouveau. And even though it's the time when your local...
Btms^ for Friday, November 6. Drink 4cast 4 2day: A Tequila Sunrise, 2 toast 2 “The Eagles” Glenn Frey, born 2day in 1948. Friday, November 6 from 5 to 7 pm @ Springhurst: Special French Wine Tasting with Clos du Gravillas wines and owner John Bojanowski, Complimentary samples of his wines include: CLOS DU GRAVILLAS L’INATTENDU CLOS DU GRAVILLAS [...]
It's time to ruminate on wines and turkey. From the perspective of undoubtedly many a wine professional – spending Thanksgivings at tables with as many as a dozen different bottles of wine at a time (the most ever for me: some five dozen bottles shared with Greg and Gary Butch’s families at their restaurant, Elizabeth on 37th in Savannah... thanks, boys! ) – I think I can do this....
Btms^ for Thursday, November 5…we like to think of it as “Friday Eve”! Drink 4cast 4 2day: 2 Sam Adams beers for Birthday toasts 2 rockers named Adams…Bryan born 2day in 1959, and Ryan born 2day in 1974. Friday, November 6 from 5 to 7 pm @ Springhurst: Special French Wine Tasting with Clos du Gravillas wines and owner John [...]
It has always puzzled me that Bordeaux is world famous for its wines but still has so much yet to discover. Tourists will flock to well known sites lured by the historic châteaux and superb wines secreted in their cellars but there are charming backwaters to Bordeaux that are also hiding away. Unlike California with its bustling wine routes and open house wineries much of Bordeaux – and...
The ramp up has begin for the long-anticipated opening of Chef Thomas Keller's first Los Angeles restaurant, Bouchon in Beverly Hills. Chef Keller now has a total of seven Michelin stars to his credit (three for The French Laundry in Yountville, California, three for Per Se in New York City and one for Bouchon in Yountville). Bouchon in Beverly Hills will feature classic bistro favorites and seasonal...
It is the harvest of the century in Bordeaux, with exceptional weather conditions producing grapes so fine that dogs are turning vegetarian to eat them.
The motorway was dreadful, " Slow for 6 miles " read the sign. I decided to take an early exit, and, as the lights turned green at the top of the slip road, pressed down on the throttle. What followed was the loudest snapping sound ever. The car wouldn't budge. Fellow motorists honked horns, shouted, gesticulated and implied that my parents weren't married when I was conceived. Their initial...
Belgian beers are considered by many to be the world's finest, as complex and nuanced as French wine and a heck of a lot more fun to drink. Fortunately for suds aficionados, the country's most celebrated brews will be...
News received during the weekends Wine Bloggers Conference in Lisbon - the Wine Travel Guides website has made its wealth of content free to view! Previously, the 50 guides to France, Italy and Spain were only available to paid annual subscribers, but now all website visitors can freely view the in-depth information to plan their own wine tours. Aimed at independent travellers who want to include...
A new study by Professor Paul Cartledge from the University of Cambridge claims that the world's biggest wine industry might never have developed had it not been for a “band of pioneering Greek explorers” who settled in southern France around 600 BC. His study appears to dispel the theory that it was the Romans who were responsible for bringing viticulture to France. However it took a little...
we took a ride in the country for halloween. i had the urge to go apple-picking or to visit a pumpkin patch. we did neither. we packed some sandwiches from taylor and stopped by a winery to eat them near a pond and a big maple tree. we took roads that looked interesting. we saw fields of cows, strange bags that hung from trees, an old railroad crossing, and a farmers co-op. we ended up at inn at little...
On the premise that “two heads are better than one”, I am pleased to introduce Heather Aitken (two Heathers are better than one) who shares my passion for all things vinoculous! From her debut in the Good Wine Guide in 1977, Heather went on to own a string of shops, delis and restaurants in London, before succumbing to the lure of the sun and “the good life” in Portugal. Now,...
French wine production and marketing is set for major change this year, but will it amount to any more than old wine in new bottles? A new system of EU wide regulation aims to end the overproduction of wines, and to redirect spending towards making the European wine market more competitive. As part of the plan the EU is hoping to take around 175,000 hectares of uncompetitive vineyards out of the market
French wine growers are protesting against EU plans to permit the blending of white and red grapes to produce rose wines. The proposal has emerged as part of a package of measures from the EU Commission aimed at assisting the European wine industry with an assault on world markets. When the issue was considered by the EU in January, it received the support of the French government who clearly did not