Petit tour de France des vins, vignobles et vignerons ! Santé !
We are in 1954 and the Mayor of Chateauneuf-du-Pape (Lucien Jeune) writes a decree which will be widely talked about: he forbids the flight over of his municipality by the flying saucers ! Madness, drunkeness or real belief…none of that, the truth is out there… In alien booming of...
Helped by the sun, the melancholic visit of this beautiful Beaujolais goes on between wines cellar and perched villages. Second part of this journey in “gamayland…” Before to “morgonner” in the Morgon’s cellar, that “chardonne” ! Yes, before to move on to the different types of Morgon, I wanted...
Little sentimental trip this week-end in a…family Beaujolais. For once, the wine isn’t the main motive of this tiny journey. Between nostalgy of my childhood and Gamay’s vineyards, melancholic visit of this beautiful Beaujolais… What a pleasure to find again these old rustics houses, with an indefinable charm, in...
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1m57, lame, the most important producer of biodynamy in France, feels affection for sexual metaphors to talk about wine, Michel Chapoutier is definitely an atypical ! Also by his itinerary: he buys the company to “Labdacos”, his grandfather in 1990, after a first successful vintage 1989 and many years...
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Not alas for Delas’wines, but rather a big CONGRATULATIONS in their beautiful wine-tasting cellar. After Paul Jaboulet Aîné, this is the second part of the classics of Rhone Valley: Delas Frères’ house in Saint-Jean-de-Muzols ! Not some troubles as soon as you cross the entrance in this nest. The...
It’s true that I feel pale these days…Then, way to Tain l’Hermitage, the sun, the Rhone, its vineyards and the good wines of Paulo ! Welcome in the cradle of the syrah to revise our classics in 3 parts: today, honour to the Jaboulet’s dynasty ! The winter over,...
Dadyyyyyy, we go to see the Ile-de-France’s vineyards ? Daddyyyyyyyyyyyyy, we will drunk a wine from Paris ? Daddy, who is Rocco Siffredi ? Daddy: “You see, my son, we are going to the “Salon de l’Agriculture” to meet a man who almost knew the age when Ile-de-France was...
Dadyyyy, what are these grapevines in Paris ? Dadyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy, that’s true there is wine in Paris ? Hey daddy, why did you married with mummy ? Daddy: “You see, my son, there was a period, in Paris, we could find wine not only in wines bar. In the XIIIe...
Et oui, ici on est dans le sud, dans la patrie du mourvèdre, dans le pays des vins couillus ! Amateurs de 12% s’abstenir…Petit tour du côté de l’AOP Bandol, à la rencontre de ses vins plus Steve McQueen que Truman Capote…justement ! Si vous ne voulez pas vous...
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Maury, roquefort et chocolat: ça aurait pu être le dernier film de Guy Ritchie ou l’ultime roman de Dostoïevski (je crois qu’il est mort de toute façon…le deuxième, pas le premier Mais ici, pas d’arnaques, pas de crimes, un peu de botanique pour le raisin, mais surtout beaucoup d’amour...
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