As we geared up for World Cocktail Day, held this year on May 13th, a cognac cocktail came to mind for this global celebration of cocktails. Widely regarded as an after dinner […]
It’s Cocktail Time with a Cognac Cocktail
It’s Champagne Time with the Great Champagne Tasting
Paris, France — It is a remarkable world of tastes and aromas that emerges in Paris at the immensely elegant Hôtel Salomon de Rothschild on May 7th. No less than 70 champagne […]
Ringing in the Rosé Season
It is aromatic, fresh and outfitted with a beautiful pink color. It’s time to kick off the rosé wine season and there is no better way than with Hérosé, a wine produced […]
A Gourmet Gazette Fine Sustainable Cocktail Find: Rhum J.M
Paris, France — It was one of the highlights of April in Paris and a run-up to Earth Day as the house of Rhum J.M, producer of fine rums from the island […]
It’s Cocktail Time, Very Vermouth Cocktail Time
World Vermouth Day — held last March 21st — has come and gone but Vermouth is here to stay. French Vermouth is becoming increasingly popular on the export market while the domestic […]
A Gourmet Gazette Fine Wine Find: Being Beaujolais
Franck Chavy offered a powerful introduction into the wines of the Beaujolais region, unforgettable wines like Morgon, Régnié and the marvel that is white Beaujolais. The fourth generation of the family at […]
Gourmet Gazette Fine Wine Finds: A Riesling Roundup
Delicately fruity, an extraordinary finesse, a full body, the Riesling grape variety is not a copious producer but a most qualitative one. It is a noble grape, perhaps the noblest grape in […]
It’s Champagne Time with Chassenay d’Arce
It is a house of winemakers, Chassenay d’Arce, a champagne-making cooperative that brings together 130 families in the southernmost reaches of the northernmost wine-making region of France, Champagne country’s Côte des Bars […]
A Family Affair
A Gourmet Gazette Fine Wine Find: Courting the Côte du Rhône with Christophe Pichon It is one of those great family affairs that one finds in France. The estate of Christophe Pichon […]
It’s Offbeat Cocktail Time with St-Germain
Paris, France — Elder flowers bring a nice note to a host of cocktails. But the elusive flower is hard to find, unless you have been initiated into the secret that is […]
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