Confounded butterfly!
I know very well that «when it is too easy, it’s not entertaining», but I must acknowledge that it will be well past 80 to 100mm of water which have fallen on us this week.
Well, the advantage, when one has hills, is that the water moves around. And then a great terroir is perhaps [...]
Luxury, calm and pleasure of the well-equipped “vigneron’
I could also have entitled this note « in praise of the banker », I hesitated a bit. Let me explain whilst the press delivers a slow white succulent grenache juice, I have a few minutes to write before returning to put the pump on (I have taken a small photo of the grenache blancs, [...]
Sweet Vouvray
Dear wine lovers,
When it comes to cheese and dessert, the truth is, it is difficult finding a wine that will go with both dishes. Hopefully, Vouvray has some treasures for you…
Vouvray, a beautiful village located near Tour in the Loire Valley, is a place where you can admire lots of authentic Châteaux from the 16th [...]
It is the return-
After having made a tour of the vines in the rain, I was reminded of this phrase of Jacques Brel which said:
« Talent, is the desire to do something»
This year, fortunately we have an ENORMOUS desire to do something, because we really have to fight-
OK, we’ll talk about it again.
PS Thanks to everyone who asked [...]
Paris à la Mode with Dr. Desai
Warning: This is very long, but if you like French wines, it is well worth reading.
This past week brought me to Paris for my yearly pilgrimage. It is a trip sparked by the passion of Dr. Bipin Desai for the best that the food and wine world has to offer, and there is no [...]
Carrefour puts its back into it!
Look, so everthing is clear… I have nothing against supermarkets in general and Carrefour in particular. One, I do my shopping there every week. Two, to reveal all, I even wrote, for several years, the copy for the catalogues «Foire aux Vins». But it was at the time when those responsible for quality liked wine [...]
The lights of Tokyo
I recently returned from Japan just at the moment when the debates on European integration in France attained unimaginable heights of mediocrity. With the sentiment that the current world will develop without us and far away from us. A comfort is all that remains, less enviable than it appears, to imagine that if we no [...]
Man, love and monkeys
OK, whilst I was wasting time trying to find you a good technical explanation of the right and left brains, I fell upon this:
…« man and woman clearly belong to two different species. In this era where one has begun the process of decrypting the human genome, you know perhaps that one can demonstrate [...]
People in Wine - A matter of taste
Just thought we would let you know that our next programme (the second - hope you managed to catch the first programme) will be out shortly. We are covering some questions concerning ‘taste’ - that multi-faceted subject which is so hugely misunderstood and is so complicated. We try and answer some basic questions: is food [...]
He who was transformed into a prawn-
No, don’t insist, I won’t give you the name of the restaurant thanks to which, yesterday, within scarcely 20 minutes I was transformed into a prawn.
Some tapas, a beautiful slice of tuna ‘à la planxa’, all was going quite well, indeed, just as I was getting back into the car. I looked a [...]
« The one who changed his brain-»
So, you didn’t know? Each year, each ‘vigneron’ even if only a little passionate changes his brain.
He passes from the left brain to the right brain. During the whole year, he has in effect abundantly worked one half (I don’t talk here about women, although obviously they too often work hard;)) of the brain, [...]