As if great beaches, yachts, stars and fun in the sun were all just not enough to put Saint-Tropez on the map, the region produces an exceptional rosé wine at the Mas […]
Wine of the Week: A Great Rosé from Saint-Tropez
Wine of the Week: The Beautiful Barolos
A journey into the Piedmont and its big and robust Barolo wines offers an exciting and enticing autumn adventure. This full-bodied, intense red wine made from the noble Nebbiolo grape requires decades […]
It’s Cocktail Time in the Loire Valley
The Wonder Strawberry cocktail. ©FESTIN Digital Agency. Courtesy De Chanceny. Handout via The Gourmet Gazette The Loire Valley, its river, its castles, its UNESCO World Heritage sites and its sparkling wines and […]
It’s Champagne Time with Pommery and Those Oysters that Are Right in Season
Reims, France — It is always an imposing and sweeping site turning into the wide driveway of the 19th century Vranken-Pommery Estate in Reims in the heart of Champagne country. The estate […]
A Gourmet Gazette Fine Family Wine Find: Dry Creek Vineyard
Paris, France — Dry Creek Vineyard made it to Paris all the way from Sonoma and The Gourmet Gazette was glad it did. It is rare to be able to taste California […]
A Gourmet Gazette Fine Wine Find: The Wild Wines of the Astonishing Ardêche
Rochecolombe, France — The wilds of the ancient land of southern Ardêche in southern France are filled with unbridled waters, rushing waterfalls, the rugged Cévennes mountains, courtly castles and vestiges of the […]
A Gourmet Gazette Fine Wine Find: The Estate Wines of Franck Chavy
Paris, France — We had another close encounter of the wine kind with one of our favorite winemakers, Franck Chavy and his brilliant and bountiful Beaujolais country wines. The fourth generation winemaker […]
A Gourmet Gazette Fine Family Wine Find: the Courtly Cairanne, Fit for a King
Lace-like mountains, rolling and rising vineyards. This is some of the best wine-producing country in France’s southern portion of the mighty Rhône Valley. It is here that the Domaine Brusset wine estate […]
A Gourmet Gazette Fine Wine Find: Volcanic Wines
These are some of the more fruity yet robust wines of France. They emanate from vineyards that revel in the good volcanic earth. Wine is old here, although probably not as old […]
It’s Champagne Time with Pommery and Yet Again Another Extraordinary Experience
Reims, France — It is always an imposing and sweeping site turning into the wide driveway of the 19th century Vranken-Pommery Estate in Reims in the heart of Champagne country. It is […]
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