“Share a French wine gifted to you for the holidays,” she said. Nope. OK, “share a French wine you wish had been gifted to you.” That was the prompt from Wendy at A Day in the Life on the Farm for this month’s French Winophiles blogging event. New year, new approach. Hope you’ll click the […]
A gift to the planet: Biodynamic Chenin Blanc from the Loire Valley (#Winophiles) Read More »
Forget Cabernet Sauvignon. Forget Merlot. If you’re looking for a deep and intense red wine, Mourvèdre is the choice for you. Mourvèdre loves, loves, loves the heat and arid, well-drained, sandy marl and limestone soils of Bandol, in the southern part of Provence, France. Bordered by the Rhône River to the west and Côte d’Azur
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Summer in Provence sounds like an idyllic dream to me. No wonder movies and books have been written about this area of southern France. Lavender fields, quaint hill-top villages, sunflowers, olive trees. Oh, and vineyards – the raison d’etre for some of us to dream of visiting Provence in the first place. The French Winophiles
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Four years ago, when I was shopping for wine in Pennsylvania state stores, I would find a single stack of shelves devoted to wines from sustainably grown grapes – that is, organic, biodynamic, and “clean and green.” Now it seems these wines are easier to find. Perhaps consumer expectations are changing, and buyers are beginning
When I first started this wine journey more than a decade ago, I was drawn almost immediately to wine from Alsace. In this cross-cultural region of eastern France, where political boundaries have changed hands repeatedly in modern history, wine producers tend to prefer a drier Riesling than the sweet styles made by their neighbors across
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