Recent Posts Tagged With 'Wine'

• French Wine Industry Let Off the Hook

  Posted on Tuesday March 10th, 2009 at 02:43 in france, Wine, loi evin, new french paradox

  Subject to ratification by the senate, on Friday 6th March the French government gave a reprieve to wine tastings and wine festivals (see my previous post) in their proposed new health laws concerning alcohol sold through 'Open Bars'. (The term is us...

• Meeting with a famous ampelographer!

  Posted on Sunday December 16th, 2007 at 09:49 in Wine, grapes, savoie, pierre galet

  Ampelography is the study of grape varieties and nowhere in France do they get more interesting than in one of my specialist areas – the Savoie. Last week I attended the first general meeting for a new centre for Alpine Ampelography – Le Centre d...

• Wines from José, Pedro, Felipe, Carlos ...

  Posted on Sunday September 23rd, 2007 at 08:49 in Argentina, Wine, malbec

  Marcelo Belmonte, viticultural director of Trapiche, Mendoza, Argentina could have talked to us about clones, trellis systems, irrigation and everything you might want to know about vine farming in the desert climate of Mendoza ... and he did. In fac...

• Wines of Uruguay - in depth

  Posted on Sunday September 2nd, 2007 at 07:43 in uruguay, Wine

  Here is my Uruguayan pin-up - wine producer Reinaldo de Lucca, maker of some intense Tannats, and exciting Marsanne and Syrah - a Francophile, a womanizer of the kindest sort, and an all-round lovely, generous man.The comprehensive wine information w...

• Wine Travel Guides will be on line soon!

  Posted on Saturday May 12th, 2007 at 04:51 in Wine

  I've been advised to have this blog so that I am not too wordy on my own new web site!www.winetravelguides.com should be live by the 18th May 2007 if all goes well in the next few days - fingers crossed.It's been lots of work over the past year but v...