Well, sort of… “If there’s something leaving the penal colony to offer you paradise pleasure, – our italian friends say, – it’s not the prisoners staying there, but the wine!” On the Gorgona Island located off the Tuscany coast in Italy the prisoners work in the vineyard to produce among 2700 and 3000 bottles per … Continue reading From Penal Colony to Paradise
Many of us have watched Isabelle Saporta’s documentary, broadcast on France 3 you can watch it herehttp://www.france3.fr/emission/vino-business. Finally a documentary on wine that denouncing the relationship to money in our modern society. It underlines the fact that many châteaux putting first and above all the business aspect rather than the passion for their activity. Nowadays … Continue reading Vino Business when truth hurts
The extremely wealthy Silicon Valley American entrepreneur, Michael Baum, has château Pommard is composed of 50 acres of vines, a gastronomic restaurant, a museum dedicated to the wine and the vine and an art gallery dedicated to Dali or Miro. But it’s also an 80 000 bottle production of Château Pommard, of which, 20 000 … Continue reading Michael Baume buy’s Château Pommard
The time has come to check the temperature of your wine storage area. Research has shown that a wine that is kept under your stairs at normal room temperature can mature much more rapidly than expected! For years, experts have been telling us to store our wines in adequate premises. To-day scientists have turned their … Continue reading Wine matures more rapidly “at home”
It’s probably something you’ve never thought about in the first place; why do we clink glasses as a toast? It’s a habit that we all have, without really knowing its origins. Everything started in the 16th and 17th centuries. In those days poisoning each other was a regular pass time within a certain class of … Continue reading Why does one clink glasses before drinking?
They wish to find the ideal wine, in other words a “woman’s” wine, but that’s not all! What could this wine be? For the young woman under thirty it would be: A rose, slightly sweet, fine and light for the aperitif or a light summer luncheon, such as a rose Bonbon from the Diables domain. … Continue reading What women expect …
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, Depardieu, Pierre Richard, Clotilde Courau , Rocco Siffredi , Jarno Trulli , Michel Denisot , Laurent Gerra , Carole Bouquet , Francis Cabrel, Sting, Christophe Lambert , Madonna, Johnny Hallyday, Michael Schumacher, Luc Besson, Bizente Lizarazu , Francis Ford Coppola, David Beckham, and more, all of these stars are not … Continue reading GLAMOUR WINES OF OUR TERROIRS
According to a study by Vinexpo and the British wine consumption firm, IWSR, the Chinese consume more red wine that the French. I quote: “China has dethroned France by becoming the first consumer of red wine in the world “, “With more than 155 million cases of nine liter bottles of red wine (or 1.865 … Continue reading THE CHINESE DRINK MORE RED WINE THAN THE FRENCH… ALL IS RELATIVE
The wines sail to England, there is nothing special you might say, but the wines sailing under sail power in the 21st century! … An old sloop rigged gaffer delivers wine from France to the English, and not just any wine, but “La coulée de Serrant” produced by Nicolas Joly. Myth or reality, this wine … Continue reading LOIRE VALLEY: WINES TRAVELLING UNDER SAIL
Have you ever happened to find yourself in this situation? At a picnic, an improvised cocktail in the middle of nowhere, or a housewarming party , bottles of wine are present (these are generally what we think of first) , but nobody has thought about the corkscrew ! Here is an unstoppable technique in order … Continue reading How to open a bottle of wine without corkscrew?