Articles tagged with France
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Being in Burgundy
There is nothing like spending time in Burgundy. The villages and countryside are beautiful and timeless. The people are discreet but warm. Burgundy is like...
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2010 Châteauneuf-du-Pape
Châteauneuf-du-Pape has been on fire lately. With spiraling prices and an explosion of points fueling that rise, it’s both hard to ignore...
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Wines Then and Now: Part 3
This is the final part in a three part series on wine prices over the past decade. Part one, with an introduction and a look at the wines of Piedmont can...
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Syrah - Has Its Time Come?
Syrah has been a perennial dark horse in the US market for much of the last two decades. It’s a grape that always seems to be on the verge of greatness,...
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2010 Burgundy
Burgundy has been on a bit of roll as of late, both in the bottle and with consumers, or perhaps I should say collectors. While the Bordeaux bubble of 2011...
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Top 8 2010 Burgundies
2010 Burgundies are hitting the shelves, or in some cases due to the marriage of limited quantities and high ratings, are slipping through the retail...
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Wines Then and Now : Part 2
This is the second part in a three part series on wine prices over the past decade. Part one can be found here, and today I follow up with part two, a look...
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Trait-d'Union or a cult group of high quality terroir Champagne producers
As harvest is once again upon us, I thought it would be fun to elaborate on a few Champagne producers who have been working in a different way for a few...
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The Côte de Beaune Villages In Your Glass(es)
The Côte de Beaune produces an array whites and reds thanks to soils that are less homogenous than in the Côte de Nuits. More reds are made than whites and...
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The Côte de Nuits In Your Glass(es)
Wines from the Côte de Nuits are easy to pin down. Reds dominate. They are full of black fruit (apart from those of Chambolle), they are finessed (except...
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Notations on the Côte de Nuits
The Côte de Nuits houses 99 percent of the red Grands Crus of Burgundy’s famous Côte d’Or. Seeing as these wines are some of the most limited...
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Champagne Boizel, a Family, a House, a Tradition
Several months ago I ended up in Evelyne Boizel’s office – without an appointment mind you – and spent about 45 minutes waiting for a mutual friend who...
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Bullet Points on the Côte de Beaune
The northern demarcation of the Côte de Beaune begins a few villages north of the convivial town of Beaune, which sits in the heart of the Côte d’Or....
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Bucket List Wines: France Part II
I published a bucket list for the wines of France two weeks ago and took some grief for it. I try to keep these installments short, so I felt a need to be...
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The Best Roses
I often get asked what the best wines are. In all honesty, that is a question without an answer. I can tell you which I think are the best wines of any given...
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Top 11 Wine Consuming Countries
This should have been a simple task. After all, the numbers I’m using come from The Wine Institute’s annual tally of wine consumption, this time for the...
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Bucket List Wines: France
We’re back, this time picking up were we left off and continuing the countdown of my bucket list wines. It would be easy to say that the sky’s the limit,...
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1998 Chateauneuf Retrospective
1998 was the year Chateauneuf-du-Pape finally got some respect. Don’t me wrong, the wine had maintained a loyal following for years, but more often than...
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Destination: Grenache
When I think of getting up and going somewhere to experience Grenache, France jumps to mind first. Where else but along that arc of La Belle France that...
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2008 Bordeaux
There’s no doubt that in many markets Bordeaux is hot once again. Given the amazing media hype of the 2009 and 2010 vintages, it might be easy to forget...
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