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Mar272015
Mar262015
The wine paradise of the Aconcagua Valley…(4/5)
Goodbye Mendoza ! Chile here I am (again), in your splendid Aconcagua Valley. From San Felipe to Valparaiso, follow me in the paradise…and not only for the wine ! After long and trying hours driving in the Andes, again (I know, you feel sorry for me 😉 ), I am...
Mar252015
I would take a glass of malbec again…(3/5)
I left you with an outstanding Torrontès, so we are going to follow our Mendoza’s wine road with a wine…of Mass !?! On the road again without knowing my next step, I note a small family bodega, Cabrini, as sweet family name. Why not ? Excellent, I come across the only...
Mar232015
Mendoza’s wines ? Malbec and Vendimia of course ! (2/5)
The opportunity was too attractive, too tempting. After Maipo, crossing the Andes (that’s already wonderful), drinking the Mendoza’s wines and watch the Vendimia‘s show…the dream !!! Sometimes, having a long drive isn’t a problem. So, I don’t speak about of Paris, Place de l’Etoile a Friday at 6pm, but sooner a...
Mar192015
Maipo Valley or the other business of the wine ! (1/5)
After 2 weeks on the wine road of Chile (and a bit in Argentina), I walk back out from there stunned, happy and disappointed at once. Explanations with this first article of a serie of 5: Maipo Valley. To be honest, it was the disappointment of the travel. Why...
Mar052015
The incredible story of the Chile’s carmenere…
If you are a wine lover, an article about the Chile’s carmenere won’t learn to you something new. And if I tell you that it is Basque !?! Everything begins when some pilgrims of the Middle-Age, on the way to Saint-Jacques-de-Compostelle, bring back in Bordeaux a Spanish Basque’s grape variety,...
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Mar022015
The legend of the Chianti and the black rooster…
Once upon a time the most famous italian red wine: the Chianti. Once upon a time a rooster used to resolve a conflict: the black rooster. This is the lengend of the Chianti and the black rooster… Once upon a time, in the not so far Tuscany, an exceptional...
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Feb092015
Way to Indonésie to taste the Balinese Wine !
Between two seesions of surf, why do you not quench you thirst with the production of the only wine estate of Indonoesia: Hatten Wines ? Confess that you didn’t think about before ? To be honest, me too…Then, rent your scooter and let’s go to the North of Bali, in the small...
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Jan242015
Do your “webcellar”: the best wine websites…by themes !
It’s not easy to find everytime a winecellar, close to the house. And to avoid the wines standardized of the supermarket, the web is a precious ally. This is the best wine websites…by themes ! Or rather my best websites 😉 1) The most universal: Idealwine ! Became THE...
Jan142015
Je suis Charlie and the wine: an alcoholic weekly !
No desire, no inspiration, no motivation. Stunned, the sheet is still blank, to write becomes anecdotal and a bottle of wine an antidepressant…Then, over the glasses, the same bottle revives, urges on. Why ? Because the wine, it’s the friends and the friends is “Charlie”. And they understand it...
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