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If you love something, set it free

February 6, 2011

Back in November of last year, I had the pleasure of dining with an ambassador—two actually, in a nice restaurant in the heart of Gascony, which is the historic name for the Armagnac region west of Toulouse. I wasn’t on some secret diplomatic mission, and the talk was much more interesting (albeit less important) than [...]

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Secret Wine contest challenges wine bloggers

October 9, 2010

The beautifully named Clair de Lune advertising agency, with offices in Lyon, Montpellier and Paris, has been running a wine blogger contest since late September. After enrolling on the agency’s Secret Wine website, the bloggers received three identical, unlabelled bottles of wine in the mail. I’ve been opening mine at dinnertime over the past week. [...]

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A Japanese manga drunk on French wine

September 26, 2010

Jean-Pierre Amoreau is the owner of Château le Puy, a 25-hectare vineyard in the Côtes de Francs region of Bordeaux. The 400-year-old domaine shares the same rocky plateau as Saint-Émilion and Pomerol, but it’s never been a Bordeaux Grand Cru Classé wine. One recent morning the château’s fax machine, to Amoreau’s astonishment, spewed out over [...]

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Corsican wine tourism guides finished–finally
and The Vine Route goes back to school

September 6, 2010

Loyal readers of The Vine Route know that I’m a big fan of Corsican wines. Leading Corsican winemakers such as Christian Imbert of Domaine de Torraccia, Antoine Arena of Domaine Arena, and Yves Canarelli of Clos Canarelli have all been featured here. Part of my fascination with Corsica is related to my wife being Corsican, [...]

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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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