Tour alumni Linda Ayer and Jim Palmer asked if I would come up to Vermont to conduct a wine tasting for friends and discuss our wine tours. I jumped at…
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Eric Asimov’s recent Wines of the Times column (5/29/19) featured wines from Sancerre and we were delighted to read that the top wine in the tasting was the Sancerre Comte…
By all accounts, 2016 was a fabulous year in Bordeaux. Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate gushed with praise:”…2016 is an incredible vintage that produced a lot of outstanding and some extraordinary…
Some people call them the French version of pancakes but all that crepes and pancakes have in common is that they’re flat and round. Other than that, it’s like comparing…
Yannick Heude lives in St. Malo, about as far away from a wine region in France as you can get. But he’s a serious wine lover who also owns a wine…
A triage of wines tasted over multiple days is never easy to do. You depend on your notes and your recollection of the moment. The ambiance does impact your judgement…
We just finished our outstanding tour of the Loire Valley wine country and came away with a much better appreciation of the high quality of the wines from one end…
Castles of the Loire A visit to the Loire Valley always includes castles because there are hundreds from one end to the other. This used to be the playground of…
The Loire Valley has a diversity of wines, primarily white. They unfortunately don’t receive the attention they deserve, and when they receive attention, it’s usually Sancerre, Muscadet or Vouvray. But…
Today we move to Nantes to meet up with our river cruise but not before stopping in Saumur for a tasting of sparkling wines at Gratien and Meyer. This large…
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