Anecdotes et autres surprises sur le vin !
Today, we leave the wine (but not alcohol 😉 ) to talk about spirits: whisky, tequila, rum, … After drinking it a lot in my youth, I wanted to know what I had swallowed ! And there are some surprises ! Firstly, two little specifications: – we call “spirits”...
Isabelle, jacquez, othello, herbemont, noah and clinton. After all these events, what are these forbidden cepages become ? The malediction seems over and comes a progressive return of theses damned. It sounds like this, according to the association Fruits Oubliés, in this book: – firstly, the decree (wine...
Continue Reading...
Isabelle, jacquez, herbemont, clinton, noah and othello are the 6 damned. These 6 forbidden cepages don’t have any rights anymore. Resistance and overproduction caused their loss… When Emile Cassez, Minister of Agriculture, suggests to cut some cepages in 1934, “90% of the Congressmen had never heard talk of these...
Named Isabelle, jacquez, othello, herbemont, noah and clinton, these 6 forbidden cepages did the happiness and the misfortune of the french vineyard. But how we come to this situation ? Return on a malediction… 24th of December 1934 in the National Assembly, the sentence is in: 6 cepages are...
Continue Reading...
This is a question which bugged me since few times: what are the most widely planted grapes in the world ? And, like a miracle, the answer came, not from the sky but from…Australia ! Of course, it’s a question which, after all, worries only wine lovers. But...
A medal from a contest on a bottle of wine, and it’s a symbol of renown…and a raising price ! Real lure for many consumers, a medal reassures when you have to make the good choice. But does it have a value ? Not so sure… France is world...
Continue Reading...
After M. Botrytis Cinerea and the sadistic “passerillage”, this is the third wink to produce a sugary wine without Beghin Say: the ice wine ! Welcome to Holiday on Ice !!! But before to put on a performance, the grapes endure a hard training ! In fact, this show...
Continue Reading...
After to have referred to the charisma and the power of Sir Botrytis Cinerea, alias “Noble Rot”, second glimpse about a wine-grower method (a little bit sadistic…) to concentrate the sugar in his wine: the passerillage (“raisining process”). And still without Beghin Say !!! So why sadistic ? Imagine...
That’s true, why the wine can be sugary ? He adds some Daddy or Candy the guy ? Nay ! Obviously, it’s more subtle and no Beghin Say in the Sauternes. 3 glimpses on the miracles of the nature and the savoir-faire of the wine-growers ! We owe the...
I see him almost everyday, I talk to him about my qualms, he never complains and stays faithful, that’s why he is my best friend: the corkscrew ! I owed him a story, to pay tribute… “Messrs English, pull the first !” So yes, like many times in the...
