CELEBRATING ARMAGEDDON WITH WINE
Imagine, we are in December 2012, within a few days, precisely on the 21st, it will be too late… Asteroids will hit the Earth, excessive Sun activity will destroy all communication systems, and our planet will get out of its axis and leave its orbit… Shortly, you know what this means: the END OF THE [...]
DOMAINES BARONS DE ROTHSCHILD (LAFITE) GOING GREEN
Insiders in the ‘Green Wine World’ knew it since quite a while but didn’t mention it because it was still ‘experimental’ and we were not yet so sure it was more than a marketing trick. On DECANTER online version, Janice Fuhrman made it definitively big news.
All the DOMAINES BARONS DE ROTHSCHILD (LAFITE), including their figure [...]
NEW WINE AOP (AOC) IN FRANCE
The INAO (National Institute of Appellations of Origin, now called National institute for origin and quality) gathered in Bordeaux on May 19th to recognize officially the upgrade AOVDQS > AOC (AOP) for the following wine regions:
SAINT-MONT, TURSAN, SAINT-SARDOS, CÔTES DE MILLAU, VINS D’ESTAING, VINS D’ENTRAYGUES & DU FEL, COTEAUX DU QUERCY
(all in South-western or southern [...]
PROVENCE, WHERE LIFE BECOMES A REAL ENJOYMENT
Spain, Italy, Greece, Southern France and all other Mediterranean countries with a great culture of hospitality and gastronomic pleasure make me really lyrical. But there is one very specific piece of land that excites my imagination more than all the others. A special land where you can find everything: sea, sun, mountains, flat land, picturesque [...]
ROMANEE-CONTI ONLINE!!!!
The living legend didn’t really need it… discretion and golden silence were always the nearly religious norm at Domaine de la Romanée-Conti. To satisfy the huge demand of information, DRC launched its website – discretely and silently – in November 2010. DRC was one of the last Bourgogne toppers not to have an own website, [...]
