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Chai Christine Cannac: A naturally-good wine bar

May 14, 2010

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 word “chez,” which has the same pronunciation, refers to someone’s home, or, in a [...]

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Teaching a dog a new trick while hiking in the Pyrenees

April 25, 2010

Our two-and-a-half hour hike up a broad glacial valley had brought us to the limit of our energy reserves. We–myself, my wife, our three young sons, and our family dog, a four-year-old, half-Italian, half-English black Labrador named Enzo—were on our second hike, in as many days, in the Pyrenees. Our base was Luchon, a spa [...]

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Fontaine à vin: A question of character

April 9, 2010

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, waiting for weather more appropriate for drinking rosé. But I still wanted to experiment [...]

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

February 28, 2010

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) the Languedoc-Roussillon region, but present, as well, were many winemakers from the Rhône Valley, Provence, Corsica, Southwest France, Italy, [...]

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

February 7, 2010

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 in the window of one of the area’s local real estate agencies. And there’s been, as [...]

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