It was a very good year. It was more than a very good year, for 2013 was an exceptional year for champagne(s). The hot, dry and sun-filled summer began in mid-April. Champagne, […]
It’s Champagne Time with Comtes de Champagne Grands Crus Blanc de Blancs 2013 from the House of Taittinger
A Gourmet Gazette Fine Gourmet Find: Ice Mama’s Ice-Cream
Paris, France — A new exceptional ice-cream parlor has just opened up in Paris offering homemade delights made with the finest of seasonal and at times uncanny ingredients. Stand-outs tasted by our […]
The Tropical Autumn: A Sacred Season of Striated Shades of Greens and Reds, and More, Much More
Paris, France — Iridescent undergrowth, a rainbow of colors, secret jewel orchids, the ground-dwelling, healing, potentially cancer curing periwinkle, the peaceful passiflora, and of course the beguiling begonias all await to be […]
In and Out of Africa: The African Art Fair Returns to Paris for an Exciting 8th Time
Paris, France — Colorful street art, eye-catching photography, intriguing woven works, performance art and more all emanating from the African continent and diaspora came together during one of the most intriguing of […]
Moments in Time: The Joyful Dance of Time for Mexico’s Day of the Dead from the Bivers
It is an exciting new and unique timepiece that Pierre and Jean-Claude Biver presented at the Salon Internacional de Alta Relojería (SIAR), the trade show devoted to upscale watches, in Mexico City […]
Guerlain: Baudelaire’s Fragrant, Flagrant Flowers
Paris, France —Poet, essayist, art critic and translator, Charles Baudelaire first published what would become his best known work in 1857, « Les Fleurs de Mal », The Flowers of Evil. While the principle […]
A Hautingly Beautiful Halloween
Dampierre-en-Yvelines — The castle and gardens of the Domaine de Dampierre-en-Yvelines, the Domain of the Dukes of Chevreuse, welcomed the kings and queens of France into its celebrated iconic walls for fabulous […]
Wine of the Week: The Marvelous Muscadets of Guilbaud Frères
It should come as no surprise that the motto of the Guilbaud family is serious and tradition. For that is exactly what their wines are all about. The family-owned house produces the […]
On the Coffee Route with Jacques Vabre
It all began 30 years ago when the French port city of Le Havre on France’s northwest Atlantic coast and Jacques Vabre, purveyors of fine coffee, created the Transat Jacques Vabre transatlantic […]
Moments in Time: Breguet’s Classique Tourbillon Time
A lush mother-of-pearl dial in midnight blue, dramatic dustings of diamonds, sparkling stars, a diamond paved dial and the brilliantly decorated tourbillons, a mechanism developed by the Swiss-French watchmaker Abraham-Louis Breguet and […]
