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Munching Vidal Blanc on Keuka Lake, New York
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No EU Austerity Drinking Tour Monday
My apologies readers. This Monday’s EU Austerity Drinks Tour will have to wait until next Monday. If I still have sanity and attached fingers, Thirsty Thursday’s wine recommendation will arrive.
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Thirsty Thursday: Chill with Blandy’s Madeira, 1998, Colheita, Single Harvest, Verdelho, Portugal
With summer’s heat upon us, we turn to whites, rosés, hell…anything chilled. Although going too far might risk damnation:
Thank you internet, thank you (and yes, those are wine). But if you’re not into drive-by Eucharists via ice cream trucks, how about chilling with something traditional yet all too forgotten: fortified wine. Continue reading
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Tagged Blandy's, colheita, estufagem, fortified wine, Madeira, Port, Portugal, Sherry, Verdelho, wine, wine popsicle
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Damp in Lyon: Crozes-Hermitage, Roman Theaters, Basilica, Cathredral and a Big Clock
25 Days into our EU Austerity Drinking Tour, we leave Avignon reinvigorated for Lyon (see last Monday’s EUADT post).
Highs and low punctuate the experience. We nearly miss our train because Avignon has not one station, but two. Yet we catch the last bus to the TGV speed train. It flies up the gorgeous Rhône Valley like a whisp of a cloud on the wind.
The vineyards of Cornas and Crozes-Hermitage sprawl everywhere. In little time our train deposits us in Lyon. The city is an urban sprawl. It renders Avignon quaint, parochial. Children beg and grope as we swap to the Metro. However, our Lyon apartment is spacious and the kitchen wonderful. We try to go out. Then it pours. Continue reading
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Tagged Cave de Tain, Crozes-Hermitage, France, lyon, Notre Dame de Fourvière Basilica, Syrah
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Avignon (P2): Fort St Andre, Monastary Charteuse, and Chateauneuf du Pape from St Clementin
We reached Avignon and blasted through the Pope’s Palace and a wine from Visan on last Monday’s EU Austerity Drinking Tour post (Avignon P1). Somehow, Avignon’s light, air, and quiet reinvigorated us, even though we should be dead after 123 … Continue reading
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