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Contextual pleasures: NYC chic meets Corsican mystique

August 25, 2011

The perception and enjoyment of food and drink are often dependent on the context in which they are experienced. This phenomenon was clearly illustrated to me during my recent vacation in Corsica, an island of mystical beauty. I had eaten at the Ferme de Campo di Monte last year while researching the northern Corsica wine [...]

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I think, therefore I..must be an inflexible, over-analytical,
unyielding, general-all-around pain in the derriere

May 29, 2011

I’ve lived in France for most of the past 20 years, but I’ve never felt the weight of Cartesian logic as much as I have over the past nine months or so. Cartesianism is a philosophy developed by French philosopher and mathematician René Descartes. His belief that method holds a higher place than practice, and [...]

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The amazingly intense wines of Domaine d’Alzipratu

October 31, 2010

Pierre Acquaviva is a warm, engaging winemaker (he helped Richard Spurr, featured in an earlier Vine Route article, set up his vineyard near Calvi) with an advanced degree in medieval literature. In 1990 he took over operation of the Domaine d’Alzipratu vineyard that had been started by his father Maurice. The 24ha property, which is [...]

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Les Vignerons Corsican: a wine cooperative
that’s greater than the sum of its vineyards

October 24, 2010

Mention caves cooperatives to most people in France and you’ll elicit memories of hulking, concrete-block structures filled with concrete fermenting tanks and the sweet smell of wine intermixed with the acetic odor of some cuvée needing urgent attention. Pumping nozzles, like those in a gas station and manned by a less-than-fastidious gentleman, would be used [...]

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Maybe Columbus wasn’t Corsican, but you tell him that

October 17, 2010

The Clos Culombu vineyard sits between the Gulf of Calvi and the 2,000-meter-high Monte Grosso in northwestern Corsica. It owes its name to the city of Calvi’s audacious claim that Christopher Columbus was born there. In fact they’ve even erected a sign–’Calvi: cité natale de Christophe Colomb‘—on the city’s outskirts. You can imagine how much [...]

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