Tag: Provence
BEACH WINES AND EXOTIC BURGERS
Please indulge me and let me start out with a little story from my days as Wine Director/Sommelier at a famous Bay area restaurant. One day a new owner appeared, a French Chef who had his own Somm coming in a few months. I felt obligated to stay on, though it became more challenging by the […]
ST. TROPEZ SUMMER SIPPER – CHATEAU SAINT-MAUR
The French Riviera is equally as popular with jetsetters and the ultra wealthy as it is with pale-skinned Northern Europeans seeking the warmth and pleasures of sun and sea. One thing they have in common, though, is a thirst for the local Rose wine. Chateau Saint-Maur, nestled in the mountains about six miles away from […]
FRENCH PREFER PINK OVER WHITE
Did you know? The French are now drinking more Rose than white wine. The dry Rose trend is increasing in other parts of the world as well, though in the good ole USA sweeter styles prevail. France’s most pale, delicate, ethereal Rose wines come from Provence, the country’s oldest wine region. While coral was the […]
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