Vendôme, France —It is one of those delightful small French cities with an upper town where the Bourbon-Vendôme castle looms and a lower town nestled on the banks of the Loir, yes […]
A Gourmet Gazette Fine Wine Find: A Venture into Vendôme
A Gourmet Gazette Fine Wine Find: The Singularity of Savoy
Followed by a Gourmet Gazette Slide Show There has always been mindful, independent thinking at work in mountainous regions and the winemakers of Savoy are no exception. Here in this region — […]
A Gourmet Gazette Fine Wine Find: the House of Vidal-Fleury
It is regarded as the oldest wine maker still in activity in the northern Rhône Valley. Vidal-Fleury was founded in 1781 and quickly earned a reputation abroad. These wines have found their […]
A Gourmet Gazette Fine Wine Find: Saint-Amour
It is a ruby red wine with reflecting purple points and a delicate floral aroma. It has a lasting taste, woody and fruity at once. This is a nectar for the Gods, […]
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 […]
A Gourmet Gazette Fine Wine Find: The Rich Savors of Corbières
As winter settles in in the northern hemisphere, appetites turn to rich, substantial foods like game, rich beef stew, rack of lamb, poultry in a buttery mushroom sauce. To back it all […]
A Gourmet Gazette Fine Wine Auction Find: The Domaine de la Poulette
For six generations wine-making savoir-faire has been handed down from mother to daughter at the Domaine de la Poulette, one of the very old and noble estates in Burgundy. The estate harbors […]
A Gourmet Gazette Family-Owned Fine Wine Find
France is gearing up for that fun time of year that is the Beaujolais Nouveau time when athe fruity wines of the Beaujolais region are enjoyed in the same year in which […]
A Gourmet Gazette Fine Wine Find: The Wines of Cascastel in Cathar Country
These are wines worth discovering, wines that are in a way one of the best kept wine secrets in France. Between the Corbières region and the Mediterranean Sea, the Maîtres Vignerons de […]
A Gourmet Gazette Fine Wine Find: Château de France
A Family Affair Paris, France — It is a journey into the Paris that was. The Paris that we all loved. The Thomassin family is celebrating half a century of owning the […]
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