Back in December last year I published an article on this blog that you can find HERE about the ways in which Sauternes and other Bordeaux appellations dedicated to the production of sweet whites are attempting to deal with a market that seems to increasingly eschew this type of wine. There's not much point in going …
Catégorie : liquid history
Vive Frascati… quand même!
Lyon a le Beaujolais, Nantes a le Muscadet, Vienne le Gemischter Satz. Et Rome? Le Frascati, bien sûr ! Un lien qui ne date pas d’hier, puisque des actes de la ville de Frascati font déjà état du succès des ses vins dans la Ville Eternelle… au temps des Borgia et des Colonna. Il Tevere Le …
Roussillon week (1): « Vins doux naturels » from the Roussillon; what’s in a name?
There is a particularly interesting but unjustly neglected group of wines produced down near France's mediterranean border with Spain. In the region known as the Roussillon, dry wines now dominate production, but there was a time when the major part of the considerable local production was fortified, as is Port for exemple. For understandable historical …
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Why the Languedoc is successful: or is big beautiful after all?
Yes, France's Languedoc region, including at its southern extremity the Roussillon (which is managed separately, making things a little confusing at times as to the figures produced), is the biggest wine-growing region in the world, covering much of the land that lies just below the Massif Central and between the Spanish border to the south-west …
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Des bulles et des croix gammées
On a pas mal parlé du groupe Henkell, ces derniers temps, notamment lors du rachat de Freixenet; un rachat qui renforce encore la suprématie du groupe allemand dans la bulle européenne, au travers de ces deux marques phares, mais aussi des Cavas Hill, des Champagnes Alfred Gratien et Henri Abelé, des mousseux hongrois Törley, ou …
Syrah, son origine, fake ou vérité ?
Au symposium qui s’est déroulé au musée gallo-romain de Saint-Romain-en-Gal-Vienne, à la mi-janvier dernier, on nous en a raconté de bien belles… Si on résume, le ‘noble’ cépage de la Vallée du Rhône nord, qui a bien essaimé depuis sa naissance, serait issu de la Mondeuse blanche et du Dureza. Adieu l’extraordinaire La belle légende …
Marc Médevielle on Picpoul-de-Pinet
The English version of Picpoul de Pinet – the white Mediterranean vineyards of the Languedoc – by Marc Medevielle was launched last Wednesday evening in a swanky private members club in London's Mayfair. I first met Marc back in 1990 when I attended the Saint-Bacchus wine competition down in the Roussillon for the first …
