April 30th 2008
CD W from Canada writes: The paper cup parasite should be on the Toronto Flag and letterhead. When you create a situation whereby people can engage in total personal freedom and can demand that we pay for it, well you get cup boy. When Gerard Kennedy …
April 30th 2008
Winemaker Michel Laroche, whose family has been tending Chablis vineyards for five generations, began experimenting with screw tops in 2001 after a harvest of bad quality corks. A year later, he became the first French producer to offer screw tops on …
April 30th 2008
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Unfiltered: On set, Johnny Depp longs for wines from his adopted home
Wine Spectator (subscription), CA - 54 minutes ago For actor and American-expat-in-France Johnny Depp, that means French wine. Depp has made no secret of his love for wine, particularly Bordeaux. … |
April 30th 2008
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Canadian food may be comfort cuisine for Indians
Economic Times, India - 3 hours ago One of the countries that least impinges on the Indian mindspace is Canada — that vast space north of the US. Indeed, it’s only very recently that Indians … |
April 30th 2008
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Making sense of French wines
Stuff.co.nz, New Zealand - 5 hours ago Below are some of the best known French wine regions and the predominate grape varieties grown in each, so next time you pick a bottle off the shelf you … Screw tops on French wine? No way! Xinhua Screw tops shake up French wine business Houston Chronicle all 25 news articles |
April 30th 2008
French wines have long been the benchmark for winemakers around the world for style, flavour and complexity - but for the rest of us, making sense of the various regions listed on French wine labels and translating them back to wine varieties we …
April 30th 2008
YOUTH hostel, survival, wood craft, middle England, driving in the mud – “sounds like the worst trip ever”, a colleague howled before I set out for the National Forest. Luxury hotels, fine dining and spas are one thing, but with ecophobia …
April 30th 2008
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French rustic: Anthony Demetre, Arbutus
This is London, UK - 2 hours ago The proprietor is a French wine lover and there’s a sliding scale of corkage which is added to the retail price of each wine. Here you can drink grand cru … |
April 30th 2008
Reviewers are out of touch with the real interests of their readers in many fields — but perhaps nowhere more so than when it comes to restaurants. Not only are many restaurant reviewers oblivious of what a meal costs, they expect non-stop luxury …
April 30th 2008
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2006 Clos de los Siete
Los Angeles Times, CA - 2 hours ago The label of this juicy young red from Argentina reads “by Michel Rolland,” a controversial French wine consultant who, for this project, put together a … |