L’Oeil du Huit art gallery was welcoming Vicky Wine Tasters for the first time last Thursday. A beautiful place, showing the art works of Sara Danguis, winner of the contest organised every year by the gallery. Sara graduated from some of the best Parisians art schools and now paints as a living. « Sara sans H » at l’œil du Huit is her first exhibition and so was probably the first time that as many people saw her work at once. Poetic and mysterious, her works gave an interesting soft atmosphere to the party. Mix this with a platter of Nippo-Burgund canapés and good Languedoc wines and it becomes all even more classy. I was expecting 70 persons, but about 130 walked in...
Are you sure you’d be able to recognise Champagne amongst other French sparkling wines ? I am doubtful and think this is going to be hard if you are an amateur. Not that I have something against Champagne, but its marketing power too often over estimate its price for quality ratio. And some sparkling wines … often lead you on the wrong track if you didn’t see the bottle before sipping. So Vicky Wine Tasting Came to test you. Last Thursday was held a blind tasting with 5 French sparkling wines from different wine regions, one of them only being a Champagne. Eyebrows up, the 50 guests tried one of each, in the colour order they had chosen: 1- Orange...
In comparison to beer, wine is often seen in people’s mind as a drink to go with fine food, interesting conversations, romantic settings, complex debates or chic dinners. I won’t try to prove the opposite but this very perception that some people have of wine drinkers is probably one of the reasons why more and more youngsters are turning to beer. It seems sometimes that you have to be highly educated to drink wine and that if you can’t talk properly about it you are screwed, especially in front of a sexy crowd. Elitist verbage and sophistication are things that are important in the wine culture but not the only road to go down. What’s more, it turns off some...