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Munching Vidal Blanc on Keuka Lake, New York
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TOURING TOURS DAY 1: OLGA RAFFAULT CHINON 2006 and 2009: EU Austerity Drinking Tour #45
Day 81 of our EU AUSTERITY DRINKING ADVENTURE, we leave Paris for Tours.
Finally, Wayward Wine can sink its teeth into one of France’s wildest wine regions and Paris’ secret source: the Loire Valley.
Our bags rattle, lost, over streams of cobbled streets. Tram lines, torn up decades ago, are returning (thanks environmentalists) but not yet functional (thanks unions).
With our hostel found, we unload our gypsy-train of luggage and jackets to explore the town. Continue reading
Posted in Cabernet Franc, Red
Tagged Cabernet Franc, Chinon, France, les belles caves, Les Peuilles, Loire, Loire Valley, Olga Raffault, Paris, Renaissance, wine
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ENTRÉE PARIS 2: Versailles, Birthday, and a Bordeaux: EU Austerity Drinking Tour #41
My wife and I wake to Paris at 7am, ready for her 31st birthday. I had planned everything, from the metro to a secret tour of Versailles: nothing less for a queen.
She whips up a glorious, casual breakfast of the frenchest of French Toasts (of course).
She then notices that my ipod still ticks in Ireland time: 45 minutes late. Last night’s shattered ceramic cat gets its revenge. Continue reading
Mélange de Trois, Jamesport Vineyards, North Fork Long Island, NY 2005
Sex sells wine and visa versa. Our social insecurities about copulating pair beautifully with our concerns over alcohol. We giggle and titter at both because, although natural and basic, they seem to be taboo, private things. As kids, sex and … Continue reading
Cabernet Franc Late Harvest, Palmer Vineyards, North Fork Long Island NY 2007
You get home from a weekend of wine tasting, partially unpack and then collapse. A few months later you find bottles from the trip. But when you open them, annoyingly, you don’t travel through space and time to that ethereal … Continue reading
Cabernet Franc, Raffault “Les Galuches”, Chinon, France 2009
Cabernet franc: the parent you wished you had. Not to be confused with its bombastic child, cabernet sauvignon (born from pollen swapping with sauvignon blanc). The cabs do share similarities: strong tannins, notes of cassis, berry, pepper and herbs. Yet … Continue reading
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Tagged Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Chinon, France, Loire Valley, Oak (wine), Vienne, wine, Wine tasting descriptors
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