From the monthly archives:

September 2009

The Château de la Liquière: Taking Faugères forward

September 24, 2009

The Château de la Liquière mirrors, in many ways, the Faugères appellation. The Vidal family has been making wine here since the 1700s. Jean Vidal, the father of the present owner, Bernard Vidal, helped to create in the early 1950s, along with his brother Lucien and a third winemaker, the VDQS (Vin Délimité de Qualité [...]

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A rite of autumn in France: Foire aux Vins wine sales

September 16, 2009

The leaves are changing colors, August tans are starting to fade, the September back-to-school Rentrée mania is over, so there’s only one fall tradition remaining in France: the Foire aux Vins wine promotions that are held each autumn in French supermarkets. This tradition, which started over 20 years ago in just a few supermarkets in [...]

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Harvesting French grapes and a lifetime of memories

September 9, 2009

Father-son outings are always special. So I was pleased with the enthusiasm my 12-year-old son displayed when I asked if he’d like to accompany me to pick grapes on the first Saturday in September. He had wanted to accompany me last year when I helped Pierre, a family friend, harvest his grapes in the tiny [...]

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Drinking inside the box: Bag-n-box wine

September 3, 2009

While on vacation in Corsica this summer, I decided to visit the Domaine Maestracci in the northern part of the island in search of a box wine that I had read about on the blog of one of the leading US importers of wine from lesser-known French wine regions, Kermit Lynch. Lynch had questioned his [...]

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