From the monthly archives:

November 2009

Christian Imbert of Domaine de Torraccia:
the indefatigable ambassador for Corsican wine

November 26, 2009

The octogenarian Christian Imbert is a tall, imposing man, with a booming voice and Hollywood leading-man, rugged good looks. His life story even reads like a Hollywood film script. For 15 years after World War II he was a French version of Sir Richard Francis Burton (the 19th century explorer, not the actor), living a [...]

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Tough love: Wine writer Andrew Jefford’s
take on wine writing and Australian wine

November 24, 2009

One of my favorite wine writers, Andrew Jefford, is halfway through a year as the wine-writer-in-residence at the University of Adelaide, while he researches a book about Australian terroir. On November 10, he delivered a speech—“Falling in Love Again: Australian Wine and the International Press” at the National Wine Centre in Adelaide. The speech is [...]

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The Domaine de Vaccelli: A wine that is part of Corsica

November 19, 2009

Located in the Taravu Valley, around 30km from Corsica’s capital city of Ajaccio, the 28-ha Domaine de Vaccelli was created in 1962 by Roger Courrèges, the current owner’s father. The elder Courrèges came to Corsica from Algeria, where his father and his grandfather were winemakers. The family was originally from near Béarn, which is part [...]

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French wine television channel under consideration

November 17, 2009

France, the world’s largest exporter of wine in terms of value (it’s behind Italy and Spain in volume), and also the world’s biggest consumer of wine, has a slightly schizophrenic relationship with wine. On the one hand, you cannot separate France from wine. The baguette-cheese-wine picnic is the ultimate French cliché. On the other hand, [...]

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Lisson: Battling Sus scrofa to make excellent wine

November 12, 2009

The Parc naturel régional du Haut-Langeudoc in southern France is a ravine-laced landscape of lakes, wooded hilltops where the Mediterranean region meets the Massif Central plateau. It’s one of the country’s wildest, most natural areas, filled with lush vegetation and wild animals, including, among many others, wild boar, roe deer and stag, rabbits, badgers and [...]

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