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Munching Vidal Blanc on Keuka Lake, New York
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St-Émilion Part 3: Macaron Sweets and Panoramic Treats
Extracted from St-Émilion’s underworld (last post), our EU Austerity Drinking Tour continues above ground. Too sick to drink, we wander. Gates and walls gird every corner of this hill-town.
You almost expect a bouncer with sunglasses to stand there. But when each bottle costs a thousand bucks, these vines become too valuable for tourists to traipse through and take selfies (#vineyardselfies).
Almost bored by all the brilliance, we walk around another Romanesque ruin abutting another Grand Cru vineyard.
But then, on the city’s edge, we also discover the birthplace of macarons. In 1620, while Pilgrims were landing in Plymouth, this bakery started selling macarons. Continue reading
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Tagged 1620, Bordeaux, Château, Fabrique de Macarons, France, macaron, Macaroons, Marie Antoinette, Pilgrims, Plymouth, St-Emilion, Troglodyte
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Entrée Paris 3: Père Lachaise Cemetery and Domaine de Rotisson, “Les Dalines”, Pinot Noir, Burgundy 2010: EU Austerity Drinking Tour #42
Day 76 of our EU Austerity Drinking Tour. We have to slow down. Versailles had exhausted us (last week’s post). To avoid (most of the) tourist hordes, we hike to Père Lachaise Cemetery.
Once in this grid of the famous and dead, we unleash our inner Art Historians, and hunt for our heroes of the humanities. Continue reading
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Tagged Art history, Édith Piaf, Balzac, Bizet, Caillebotte, Corot, Delacroix, Domaine De Rotisson, Ernst, Food, Géricault, Ingres, Jacques Louis David, Jim Morrison, Lalande, Lauencin, Marie Antoinette, Montand, Nadar, New Zealand, Oscar Wilde, Père Lachaise Cemetery, pinot noir, Pissarro, Recreation, Sarah Bernhardt, Stein, Théodore Géricault, United States, Varietal, wine, Wine tasting descriptors
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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
WAYWARD WINE 