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 […]
Wine of the Week: The Beautiful Barolos
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 […]
Made in France: Lasting Lalique
Paris, France — Wine drinking has become more French than ever with a new, exciting wine glass from the celebrated glass-making house of Lalique. The clear crystal glass, conceived for tasting not […]
A Gourmet Gazette Fine Summer Wine Find
As summertime and rosé wine season ring in, we wanted to make sure that everyone could get in on the refreshing action. So this fine wine choice boiled down to a luscious […]
A Journey into Pessac Léognan with Château de France
Paris, France — It was a well-healed crowd at the Restaurant 122 in the posh 7th arrondissement of Paris in a neighborhood of elegant private mansions housing embassies and French government ministries. […]
A Gourmet Gazette Fine Sparkling Wine Find
Paris, France — In our dry sparkling wines alternatives to champagne mode, we’ve just tasted a new Crémant, a Crémant made in Bordeaux with the Sémillon grape variety, a golden-skinned grape that […]
A Gourmet Gazette Fine Food and Wine Find
The Gourmet Gazette returns to one of its fine wine finds of the year with the splendid wines of Divineo whose vineyards are in central southern France but whose oak ageing casks […]
A Gourmet Gazette Fine Sparkling Wine Find
The Orfèvres du Vin (which literally means the goldsmiths of wine) are ringing in the festive season with a delicious sparkling wine from Burgundy. Delicate bubbles, a light yellow color with subtle […]
It’s Champagne Time with Notre-Dame and the Tour d’Argent
Paris, France — The splendid re-opening of Notre-Dame offers a time to celebrate and not only the mass. The intricate, impeccable restoration of the Gothic wonder after being ravaged by an insidious […]
A Gourmet Gazette Fine Wine Find: The Divine Wines of Divineo
These are the mythical regions of France, named for the old provinces: Languedoc and Burgundy. And they also have that good earth, the terroirs, that France is known for and knows how […]
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