“Vigneron’ or orchestra player
OK, let me tell you about the last few days- since Monday, Claudine and/or I have:
1 Tried to understand with the mechanic and Serge, my extraordinary head of viticulture, how better to maintain our beautiful tractor.
2 Discussed with Frèdèric, my apprentice, our attempts to redress the deficiency of manganese in a parcel.
3 Made a tour [...]
Brands for whom, brands for why-
Confined to the house by bad tonsilitis, I finally find the time to listen to a little Radio France Inter. Replay of an excellent programme on the «Rue des entrepreneurs [the road of the entrepreneurs]» about brands. They talk about lots of intelligent things in as much as they weren’t talking about wine.
Several opinions come [...]
Virtual is real
One part of the weekend was devoted to my computer. For two years, I let it get on with itself, downloading useless programs, hidden indexes. It was time to get real and the arrival of ‘Tiger’, was a good excuse to get on with this impossible exercise (yes, of course, I have a Macintosh, obviously [...]
Dynamic dynamists…
Last week, a lightening passage through a tasting of bio-dynamicists, an «off» at Vinexpo.
Dark room, sunken, noisy, but very clean, total disorganisation, astonishing mix of hyper-professional tasters and Baba-types in sandals and ‘churidar kurtas’. This should have been «hyper-closed off » anyone can go in. The ambience reminds me of Saturday mornings in the 70s [...]
“Vigneron’, intelligent 9 times… you will be (master Yoda)
Read in Le Figaro an interesting dossier on precocious children and their intelligence.
According to the article, Howard Gardner, professor of Science and Eduction at Harvard, listed 9 forms of intelligence: musical (Mozart); movement (the mime artist Marceau); logic-mathematics (Albert Einstein); linguistical (Thomas Stearns Eliot); spatial (Pablo Picasso); interpersonal (Gandhi), which enables one to understand [...]
The spy who loved wine
On this national holiday in the USA, I have set myself up as a wine spy for the CIA.
Everyone knows that during their spare hours, it orientates its spy satellites to track the great French vineyards . Have they already rummaged overhead at Vingrau? Hum, small chance. But, me, I’ve done it, thanks to [...]
Quite simply, to make good wine
My comparison between the «creative anxieties» of winegrowers and those of a painter has triggered off a passionate debate on LPV (la Planète-Vin), one of the cybernauts wonders – and I wonder – what would I do with a parcel of Aramon on a terroir suitable for artichokes/asparagus. If you don’t have the time to [...]
2005, the year of cross-breeding
No, I am not going to talk to you about Prince Albert. Even though, if I believe an article I gleaned from le Figaro, photographs of a handsome chubby baby on the cover of Paris-Match, can multiply the readership of a newspaper. Perhaps that would also work with a blog…
No, I have simply been [...]
Jean Guyon makes a Box…
One of the events at Vinexpo, was the presentation by Jean Guyon, owner of Château Rollan de By, in the Mèdoc, of his range of Bag-in-Box, humorously entitled ‘Bacchus Box®’ (one wonders why no one thought of it before…) 7 products, very fancy, designed by a German fashion house Escada (it was sufficient to observe [...]
And, you, young’un, taste my wine!
OK, I laugh at the title, but for the rest, well done. After several minutes visiting the site of e-motif (http://bordeaux.ecritel.net/index.php*), a mega-fun initiative of the organisation of young winemakers [Commission 'jeunes vignerons'] from some all-embracing structure in Bordeaux of which I know nothing, I tell myself that there is only one real idea, one [...]
AOCE and AOCM
Yesterday evening I went to my first trade association meeting. The AOC association «Côtes de Roussillon» was getting together in order to validate the project of re-writing the rules of the Appellation within the framework of the big reform launched by Monsieur Renè Renou. I don’t know if one day we will have these famous [...]
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