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Sharon's wine blog
http://sharonwine.blogspot.com/
An American writer in her daily Paris life discovers different wines... on a shoestring. Stories, tastings, slices of life and glasses of wine.
- Added on: Aug 25th, 2007
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: tournel
- Listed in: Food & Drink Humor
- Tags: blog Wine wines burgundy tasting french wines
Recent Posts
White, black, white
The intention was obviously to write about an astounding champagne I'd had a few weeks ago. But then other great bubbles came my way, and I realized it would be hasty to sum up everything in one epiphanic blanc de noirs. So I'll give you a pair, inst...
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It's mushroom season; we're in the thick of it, and beneath, say, a squab en crapaudine or a ballotine of wild duck will be a little heap of black chanterelles or mousserons or cèpes. A few days ago, I was wandering around with a camera and snapped ...
Glug
It's November and is almost time for the "new" wines to come out. I got an early taste of one a couple of days ago when I stopped by at the unusual wine store La Cave de L'Insolite. (I say this with redundant literalness: "insolite" being the French ...
Mushrooms, boar and blood
It was a dark, dark, dark fall night. The wind was whipping, and garish bright lights festooned the outside of the Cirque d'Hiver, where many children and balloon-holding parents streamed across the rue Amelot, blocking a taxi in which Barbra Austin ...
A mouthful of pig and a handful of grapes
I love those sticky, fatty, piggy dishes, especially as in Paris, autumn is starting to cool down the air and a cold breeze sometimes picks at my cuffs.Lately, I stopped in at Le Comptoir and knew I had to glut myself on some offal. The main course w...
Py in the sky
Paris may not be Rome, but it does have a few hills. Accordingly, I like walking up to the heights of Belleville to stop in at Le Baratin. Last night, I did this, and sat down to a nice terra cotta dish of tripe and veal foot stewed with chick peas a...
