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Football Transfer (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Bordeaux vs Juventus live Champions League fixtures. FC Girondins de Bordeaux or Juventus will win in France? Invest Champions League tickets to watch live Bordeaux vs Juventus, schedule: 25 November, kick off time: 20.45 cet. Bordeaux Champions League live fixtures FC Girondins de Bordeaux vs Juventus live match at Stade Chaban Delmas Bordeaux France. Buy Bordeaux wine after watching Bordeaux Juventus...
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Decanter.com (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
A new pro-wine lobby with a budget of some ��2m has been created to counter the effects of the French government's ��vilifying' of wine.
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Autoblog (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Filed under: Etc. We've known for two months this day was coming , yet it's still something of a shock. Robert Farago, the one man wrecking crew of an editor-in-chief over at The Truth About Cars, has hung up his gloves . Why a shock? Love him or loathe him, Farago has been a mega-influence in the autoblogosphere (and, in auto journalism as a whole, it must be said) for nearly a decade. In many ways...
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Londonist (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Image courtesy of smaku under a Creative Commons Attribution licence Tomorrow is the third Thursday in November, and we all know what that means
Don’t we? Don’t worry, the hip but welcoming Bar Kick is on hand to bring out the sophisticate in us all. The Shoreditch venue is pushing away the table footballs to celebrate 'Beaujolais Day’: at the stroke of midnight, every year,...
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France24 (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Petrus, Romanee-Conti, Chateau d'Yquem -- wines coveted by connoisseurs, and targeted by counterfeiters. According to French wine professionals, a handful of rare and fine wines face the same threat from fraud as luxury handbags and designer sunglasses. Trafficking in fake wine has "always existed a little, but it's definitely amplified with the rising prices of fine wines", said Sylvain...
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Wonkette (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Here is your bit of foreign wine news, from the international country of France: the French like wine. They’re also governed by millions of strange laws, laws that allow them to protest protesting, being fired, and other privileged things. There is a special wine, Beaujolais Nouveau, and, according to said strange French laws, new batches [...] Beaujolais Nouveau - FrenchWine - Beaujolais - France...
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Seth's blog (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
They’re just like us! In France, a decade ago a wine researcher named Fréderic Brochet served 57 French wine experts two identical midrange Bordeaux wines, one in an expensive Grand Cru bottle, the other accommodated in the bottle of a cheap table wine. The gurus showed a significant preference for the Grand Cru bottle, employing adjectives [...]
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University of Nebraska Press (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Today we're highlighting one of the books featured in our cooking sale. Read from "As the Corkscrew Turns" in Corkscrewed: Adventures in the New French Wine Country byRobert V. Camuto: "It was a perfect day to lose faith in wine....
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Iain Dale's Diary (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Tonight at 8.30pm Radio 4 will broadcast a programme which looks at the consequences of Britain leaving the European Union. From the write-up on the BBC websit e it looks like it will be a fascinating listen. Europhiles understandably try to paint British withdrawal as potentially apocalyptic. Take this... Simon Hix, professor at the London School of Economics, suggests that cheap flights to EU countries...
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Piedmont Restaurant (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Hello! We are very excited to announce another wine dinner! This one will be on Monday December 7th and will be in collaboration with Bruno Arricastres of local French wine importer Wine Without Borders and Drew Lazarus & Thomas Thorne of Hope Valley Bottle Shop . The wines will be French and we be making our takes on some French classics utilizing lots of great local seafood, meat & produce....
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Vagablond (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
La Soiree 28th Beaujolais and Beyond Festival! Don’t you LOVE being first? Francophile’s wait all year to celebrate the harvesting and release of the first wine of the year with a traditional Beaujolais Nouveau tasting. This lively fundraising event offers an evening filled with a variety of gourmet foods to sample, French wine tastings, an [...]
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SCSUScholars (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Chad writes by email: I've been meaning to ask you for a while about the way that imports impact GDP. If Americans stop buying as much stuff at Wal-mart, imports go down which means GDP looks better. But few would take that as a positive sign. That question is a principles question. If I import a bottle of French wine to drink (say, some of that nice Beaujolais Nouveau coming in next week), it increases...
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Ghost of a flea (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Just when you thought it was safe to buy French wine: Russia is set to...
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The Wine Whore - A Blog that Works for Wine! (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
While traveling in France, one name came up repeatedly: Robert Parker. I haven't figured out if the French love him for bringing fame and fortune to their world of wine, or hate him for causing French wine to be crafted to fit his palate. One thing is for sure, Parker is the root cause behind too much wood in wine. By that, I mean that Parker's desire for new oak fueled the "overoaked" wine...
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Chili Cheese Fries (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Now we are talking old school New Orleans, French influenced Creole cuisine. Merchand de Vin sauce, which translates “Wine Merchant Sauce”, was made popular by the French wine merchants attempting to sell more of their wares by creating new marketing avenues. Well it worked because this sauce was just the ticket for the somewhat flavorless beef tournedos [...]
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ifp | 16/09/2009
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
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ifp | 15/05/2009
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