Nathalie Gaubicher founded Domaine Le Briseau in 2002, with her first husband, Christian Chaussard, in an area encompassing Jasnières and Coteaux-du-Loir. Briseau’ is named after a plot on the estate…
After a few months with scarcely a qvevri-wine to our name, we have now received our long-awaited shipment of new vintages (mostly 17s) and a few new wines too. We…
Continued from Chapter Two, Part Two. Read Chapter Two Part One, and Chapter One Parts One, Two and Three here. Terroir and the good, the bad and the ugly grapes In the way that humans like…
Continued from Chapter Two, Part One. Read Chapter One Parts One, Two and Three here. Digression Concerning the Art & Nature of wine transformation Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed. --Thomas Huxley The…
Read Chapter One Parts One, Two and Three. My agent narrowed his eyes and bit down on the end of an unfeasibly large cheroot. “Look, kid. You’re meant to be…
Read Parts One and Two... Madiran We're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad. --The Cheshire Cat, Alice in Wonderland O tannin bomb, o tannin bomb. There lurks a Tannat-ridden…
Aszu were with that slow furmint! The undisputed king of Hungarian vineyards, Mount Tokaj is located to the north of the country, 200 km east of Budapest. This legendary location…
Read Part One HERE. [The three musketeers and D’Artagnan are escaping from the Cardinal’s men in his own coach] Porthos: Champagne? Athos: We’re in the middle of a chase, Porthos.…
We have two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice and another which we practice but seldom preach. - Bertrand Russell My innate…
Free fighters, free lovers, free spend- ers – The Cadets of Gascoyne the de- fenders Of old homes, old names and old splen- dors. --Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac I’m remembering…