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English Wines in Paris ! Overview

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) The adventure was tough, English wines producers are careful with their bottles and pay attention to the French market about as much as we care about their wine… Fair Play! I wanted the wines, I got the wines. From the vineyard to London, from London to a car trunk or the Eurostar… I would have given up easily but we stayed driven!  Finally, the 80...

Have you ever drunk English?

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. This reaction will only be if he ever imagined that wine and English could come together, I mean: as two joint words in the same sentence. Well there is wine in England since , and since the Romans, with a resurgence this past 50 years. You can't really blame the French for not knowing, The English soil might have the reputation for green lands but not...

April, Fun & Burgundy: Vicky’s Côte Chalonnaise Selection

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 SUREMAINMy favorite wine provider: Les Mois du Vin has his family in Mercurey. Besides the fact that he is very lucky, he also gave us the huge honnor to share his luck with us all. His cousin Loic was in Paris but no one could come to Lyon due to train perturbations. Nevertheless, we were glad the wines made it there! Les Mois du Vin is...

When Bourgogne Goes Live at Complexe du Rire

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 opened its door to atypical wine makers. Guillaume for the Bret Brothers, Vincent Gouffier for the Domaine Gouffier, and Loïc de Suremain for the Domaine de Suremain in Mercurey. But also interesting others wine and art lovers.. INDEED! South...I was not the only one to head! A team of happy Burgunds came down too: The Bourgogne Live Men first, two fun entrepreneurs that followed their instinct...

When Quality and Coolness Meet: It is called the Bret Brothers

"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. The two Bret brothers are indeed brothers and have their family in wine since 1947. It was their grandfather that last worked with the vineyard and gave them the envy to follow up...Not like a fantaisie but more like a long life dream : at 12, Jean-Guillaume already knew he wanted the beautiful Vinzelles domaine to be part of his life. So a classic family...

Vicky’s Delicious April Burgundy Selection – Part I

 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, Spanish... This is also true in all major wine regions - In Bordeaux they drink Bordeaux, in Beaujolais I drink Beaujolais and so in Fleurie I always had Fleurie in my glass with eventually a few drops of Moulin-a-Vent. As some like to say, nothing ever changes without a dream, so started Miss Vicky Wine. Well decided to try all the wines possible, I had...