July 1, 2011
Even though this is a personal blog, I don’t write about myself very much in it. The focus, naturally, is on French wine and winemakers. This will be an exception, however, as the first part of the month of June has been devoted to a viticulture (“vineyard”) internship for my French oenology studies. I’m doing [...]
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December 30, 2010
“Every generation needs a new revolution.” Thomas Jefferson Photo : Isabelle Rozenbaum - www.rozenbaum.com It was the Phoenicians, then the Romans ( arriving four centuries later, around the first century B.C.), who first planted vines in the Gaillac region northeast of Toulouse. It predates Bordeaux, and like Cahors, Madiran and other wine regions in southwestern France [...]
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