Once again Shakespeare is spot on. I’m off to God’s Own Country next week for a spot of fishing, walking, swimming, eating and quite probably rain watching: the weather forecast is awful. Instead of one last hurrah for a glorious summer, it may be time to dig out the woolies.
Posts Tagged ‘France’
Aug
16
Beaujolais Basics: A few things you should know about Beaujolais
by Miss Vicky Wine, http://missvickywine.blogspot.com
So I was going to write about Burgundy, or the Santa Cruz Mountains, and then … when following the beaujolais conversation on the Internet, I’ve started getting scared. Very few beaujolais drinkers seem to understand this region correctly, some drinkers that I can’t blame as they seem to be very badly informed. So from now on, I decided I should write an article a month on the region and …
Aug
05
Chateau d’Esclans Esclans Rosé 2008 (Provence, France)
Everyone loves rosé especially when it is sunny. And there are so many styles around, from syrupy Californian numbers that taste like the boiled sweets to the wonderfully alliterative posh, pale Provencal numbers. You can go cheap (and quite possibly nasty) or you can splash the cash on a £70 bottle. Can you really spend £70 on rosé? Amazingly, yes, you can…
Aug
02
Lugging wine up mountains in a heatwave
by Louise Hurren, http://www.masdelecriture.fr/blog-vignoble/
It’s high summer in the south of France, and seriously hot. Tourists and locals are sweltering under an officially-declared heat wave. What are owner-producer Pascal Fulla and winemaker Patrice Giorello of Languedoc’s Le Mas de l’Ecriture up to? They’re talking about climbing a mountain? It would make for some neat bottle shots, and the story could be put on …
Jul
30
Rupert Bates on Burgundy
by Rupert Bates
Bibendum’s latest contributor is Rupert Bates, a property journalist by day and keen imbiber by night. In this post, he puts the spotlight on Burgundy with three recent tasting notes…
English couple Su and David Bishop drank in the sights of Burgundy in Eastern France; bought a house between Beaune and Meursault and never looked back. Both in the building trade, they then …
Jul
23
Rent a Cherry Tree Part 2: Pickles & Chateauneuf du Pape
by Gareth Groves
Last Saturday was National Cherry Day, but of course, you knew that, didn’t you? I was probably one of the few people in the country who spent the day immersed in all things cherry. The day before we had picked about 10kg of Kordia cherries from our rented tree in Northiam, East Sussex. I should think we managed to get at least …
Jul
14
Domaine La Croix Belle Syrah 2009 (Cotes de Thongue, France)
Ah, the 14th July: Bastille Day. Look out for a patriotic breakaway in this afternoon’s Tour de France stage as one of the natives goes for glory in the sunshine on France’s national day. At the end, he’ll crawl out of the saddle, drape himself in red, white and blue at the finish and gleefully spray the supporters with some of the country’s finest fizz. All will be well with le monde…
Jul
05
The wines of Thierry Matrot
by Robert Giorgione, http://robertfoodwinetravel.blogspot.com
Why is it that over the years wines produced from Chardonnay have got a bit of a bad rep? Why is it that we consider more positively and ‘affectionately’ enjoying a bottle of white Burgundy, as opposed to a ‘New World’ Chardonnay? Perhaps you have not realised it yet, but when you are enjoying a bottle of Meursault or Puligny-Montrachet, you …
Jun
29
A dose of La Clape: Visiting Chateau L’Hospitalet
by Gareth Groves
It may sound like a smutty seaside postcard, but in fact La Clape is a wonderful, seaside wine region very close to Narbonne in the South of France. A ‘defined terroir’ within the Coteaux du Languedoc AOC, La Clape is dominated by a modest mountain overlooking the Mediterranean, a mere 10km or so away. It is classic garrigue territory: dusty, hot earth populated by …
Jun
04
Bordeaux recent vintages
By Steve Evans, http://awinemerchantslife.blogspot.com/
The team
With all the hype around 2009 Bordeaux I thought it worthwhile relooking at a few vintages from recent years to see how they’re showing. So I recently tasted with the bar team from Greens in Cornhill the following different appellation wines which they list.
Chateau Bonnet Reserve Rose 2009, Andre Luton, …