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Chai Christine Cannac: A naturally-good wine bar

tomfiorina — Fri, 14 May 2010 14:33:21 +0000

Chai Christine Cannac: A naturally-good wine bar is a post from: The Vine Route

Chai Christine Cannac: A naturally-good wine bar is a post from: The Vine Route French speakers will immediately catch the play on words in the name of this wine bar in Bédarieux, a small town in the Languedoc-Roussillon’s Hérault department. “Chai” is French for an aboveground structure used for wine storage and aging. The French [...]

Fontaine à vin: A question of character

tomfiorina — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 19:40:38 +0000

Fontaine à vin: A question of character is a post from: The Vine Route

Fontaine à vin: A question of character is a post from: The Vine Route Last summer, I published a story about Domaine Maestracci in northern Corsica’s AOC Corse Calvi appellation. I mentioned my interest in trying their Clos Reginu rosé that is sold in a five-liter box. That box is still in my wine cellar, [...]

Veni, vidi, gustavi: Thoughts and impressions about Southern France’s largest wine exhibition

tomfiorina — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 10:22:57 +0000

Veni, vidi, gustavi: Thoughts and impressions
about Southern France’s largest wine exhibition is a post from: The Vine Route

Veni, vidi, gustavi: Thoughts and impressions about Southern France’s largest wine exhibition is a post from: The Vine Route I’m just back from the February 22-24 Vinisud, the ninth edition of this massive, international exhibition of Mediterranean wines and spirits. It was exhausting trying to see even a portion of the 1,600 exhibitors from (primarily) [...]

Red Bicyclette scandal: there’s un pigeon born every day

tomfiorina — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 09:29:51 +0000

Red Bicyclette scandal: there’s un pigeon born every day is a post from: The Vine Route

Red Bicyclette scandal: there’s un pigeon born every day is a post from: The Vine Route On several occasions over the years, my wife and I have house hunted in France. Sometimes it was just curiosity; before our children were born, we could take leisurely holidays, and we’d sometimes view an interesting looking property advertised [...]

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

Tom Fiorina — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:18:09 +0000

Tough love: Wine writer Andrew Jefford’s
take on wine writing and Australian wine is a post from: The Vine Route

Tough love: Wine writer Andrew Jefford’s take on wine writing and Australian wine is a post from: The Vine Route 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 [...]

French wine television channel under consideration

Tom Fiorina — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:56:41 +0000

French wine television channel under consideration is a post from: The Vine Route

French wine television channel under consideration is a post from: The Vine Route 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 [...]

TONG: A new kind of wine magazine

Tom Fiorina — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:24:54 +0000

TONG: A new kind of wine magazine is a post from: The Vine Route

TONG: A new kind of wine magazine is a post from: The Vine Route Launching a magazine in difficult economic times is risky enough. Print publications in general are under pressure from the Internet, making such an exercise even more difficult. Even such venerable titles as Gourmet Magazine (around for 70 years) are closing. So [...]