Here you will find a selection from the Vicky English Wines Tasting (April 22nd in Paris). For the overview of the tasting and more on English Wines you can link to the past two articles: English Wines in Paris. Overview Have you ever drunk English? Découvrons les vins anglais avec Miss Vicky Wine (Forgive my [...]
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Categories: bookers vineyard, camel valley, english wines, grains nobles, miss glouglou, polgoon, tasting notes
As you can read in my last article, English Wines are rare… and quasi inexistant in Paris. For a change, together with Grains Nobles Tasting School, I have decided to bring them along for a show. Last Thursday, they were invading the Latin Quarter of Paris! (More on the English Wines Selection in this article) [...]
Categories: balfour rose, bookers vineyard, camel valley, english wines, hush heath, polgoon, ridgeview wine, sparkling wine
English, not British. Wine not beer. English Wines Tasting in Paris (April 2010) featuring Polgoon, Hush Heath, Camel Valley, Ridgview Wine Estate and Bookers Vineyard at Grains Nobles Tasting School Talk about English Wines to a French and he’ll do the weirdest face, as if you had gave him a full spoon of strawberry jelly. [...]
Categories: camel valley, english wines, france, paris, polgoon, rare wine
The Côte chalonnaise was at the honnor at the Bourgogne Live Tasting with two producers from Mercurey. Concentrate on this read… and feel welcome to sip it after! It is GOOD. I like so I pour.. Mercurey Village – Le domaine 2007, Domaine de Suremain VICKY’s BURGUNDY SELECTION… not the LEAST! DOMAINE DE [...]
Staying in the Burgundy Spirit I’ve packed my bag for a Vicky Wine Tasting in Lyon. After the Parisian cellar, it was about time for my prefered wines to go on stage. At the Complexe du Rire they climbed, a well reputed comic theatre. After having hosted hundreds different artists, this 14th of April, it [...]
« Exceptional grapes for Exceptional wines »: the BRET BROTHERS. What a strange name for a French wine brand! Why picking an English name when you have the chance to be French? And why Bret? Well Bret is their last name, in case you had other thoughts. Marketing you think, cleverness and coolness I would add up. [...]
Categories: bret brothers, la soufrandière, maconnais, pouilly-fuissé 2007, viré-clessé 2007, white wine
Burgundy wines have entered the legend for all and always have been an unreachable dream for me. If it was so, then the month of April has very well started for Vicky Wine. It is a common thing in chauvinist countries to drink your own wine. In France for instance we drink French wines, in Spain, [...]
Thursday April the 1st, no time for jokes, I was all about Burgundy and so were the 100 Vicky Winers. I love these wines so much and drink them so little compared to my wine soul needs, that I had decided to treat ourselves well on this special occasion. The Cave Elzevir, an impressively beautiful [...]
