Bought some wine back in December and thought I’d share our reviews with you. We didn’t get to taste them all for various reasons, but here is a little information on each wine.
2008 Fayard, Domaine de Fondrèche; like a Southern CDR, light to medium body fruity red wine
Grape varieties: 50% Grenache, 30% Syrah, [...]
Tags: France, French, wine
On Saturday 31/10, we went to a salon with some friends and tasted the afternoon away! I won’t be able to tell you exactly how each smelled and tasted, because we had so many, but I will try to tell you a little about each wine that we tried.
2007 Pouilly Fuisse from Bourgogne; Domaine les [...]
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We attended a wine tasting at an Expat Expo here in Lyon last October. Not only was it tasty, but very informative. I like to think of myself as fairly knowledgeable in the world of wine, but I definitively learned a lot yesterday. So, I thought I would share some of that knowledge with you! [...]
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Eau de Vie means, “Water of Life”. This bottle came from a village in France, and we were told that it was made from a Medieval recipe passed down from generation to generation. Unfortunately, the last distiller died without an heir to his secret family recipe, so this was one of the last [...]
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Banana beer is a specialty that we discovered in Germany. You can use any Weiss beer or Hefeweissen. I like mine sweet, so I make the mixture about half banana juice and half beer. They have banana juice in France and Germany, but I do not remember seeing it in America. [...]
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