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24 February 2012

n.d.p. in burgundy: le bar à vins, gevrey-chambertin

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I like towns small enough for things not to have names. The  Post Office, the  train station, the  wine bar. Probably not great for your Go...
21 February 2012

n.d.p. in burgundy: domaine gros frère et soeur, vosne-romanée

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Driving away from the monkishly spare cellars of Domaine Denis Bachelet , I joked to J that for M. Bachelet to raise neither his production...
16 February 2012

n.d.p. in burgundy: domaine denis bachelet, gevrey-chambertin

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Professional readers might note that, as I write up my experiences tasting around Burgundy, I tend to tread uncharacteristically gingerly w...
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14 February 2012

n.d.p. in burgundy: bar du square, beaune

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Visits to picturesque winemaking regions often give rise to certain bland repetitive fantasies of actually living in said regions. In my ca...
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09 February 2012

b minus: agapé bis, 75017

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When I was introduced to restaurateur Laurent Lapaire at Le Grand 8 a few months ago, I confessed that while I'd heard a great deal a...
06 February 2012

n.d.p. in the loire: 2012 - la renaissance des AOCs, la dive bouteille, le salon les pénitantes

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While they're fresh in mind, I thought I might as well post some impressions of three natural wine tastings I attended in the Loire the...
01 February 2012

n.d.p. in burgundy: ma cuisine, beaune

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As we walked to the restaurant, J explained that it was a sheer fluke to have landed table at Ma Cuisine in Beaune at such short notice. T...
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18 January 2012

n.d.p. in burgundy: domaine bertrand machard de gramont, curtil-vergy

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My friend J's stated plan, this past October, had been to staff a replacement at his cave in Paris and cruise down to Burgundy for thre...
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16 January 2012

all the right ingredients: jeu de quilles, 75014

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Imagine you must throw a party. You invite your most amusing friends into a room with a balcony after sundown and open numerous bottles of ...
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13 January 2012

les vendanges 2011: jura: ludwig bindernagel, poligny

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In defense of what may appear to be my extreme lateness in posting on my experience harvesting in the Jura this past September, I'll ju...
12 January 2012

n.d.p. en suisse: swiss curiosities

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A schwingen festival. Not the kind of schwinging you may be used to.
09 January 2012

n.d.p. in piemonte: cantina dei produttori di nebbiolo di carema

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A.K.A. The other Carema, the one not made by Luigi Ferrando . My friends and I were passing one more night in Switzerland on our way back...
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06 January 2012

n.d.p. in piemonte: alessandro e gian natale fantino, monforte d'alba

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On our last night in Monforte, my friends and I revisited Case della Saracca , with the aim of drinking something we hadn't had much of...
04 January 2012

n.d.p. in piemonte: osteria dell'unione, treiso, then bruno giacosa, neive

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After tasting the extremely ethereal Barbarescos of Cascina delle Rose with estate owner Giovanna Rizzioli, we followed her recommendation...
02 January 2012

welsh wine: ancre hill estates

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Another year, more struggling. I didn't mean for the blog to come to a crashing halt in December. There were the usual holiday excuses;...
19 December 2011

straight classic: le severo, 75014

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If we define popular staples as foodstuffs that could conceivably be employed as a "health boost" icon in video games - things li...
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