Doug Decants: Domaine Luneau-Papin’s Muscadet Vera Cruz
āStumbling on melons as I passā¦ā ~ The Garden by Andy Marvell (1621-78) You can eat an oyster now all year round without fear of gastro-intestinal reprisal. You could always…
āStumbling on melons as I passā¦ā ~ The Garden by Andy Marvell (1621-78) You can eat an oyster now all year round without fear of gastro-intestinal reprisal. You could always…
Nathalie Gaubicher, former sommelier, foundedĀ Domaine Le BriseauĀ in 2002, with her first husband, Christian Chaussard, in MarƧon, in an area encompassing JasniĆØres and Coteaux-du-Loir. āBriseauā is named after a plot on…
Iād give my goddam soul for a glass of Vouvray. --Jack Torrance This supremely versatile and noble Loire grape makes all styles from pĆ©tillant and sparkling through bleach-bone dry, tender,…
Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.Ā --Blaise Pascal (born in Clermont-Ferrand) Jean Maupertuis tends 3.8 hectares of…
One of the natural wine world's most beloved figures, Thierry Puzelat has been making wineĀ au naturelĀ in the Cheverny and Touraine appellations of the Loire Valley for over two decades, although…
Keep your eyes on the wines: 2014 Vin de France, Melonix, Jo Landron This is Melon ++. Melon as in Muscadet. But with a natural malolactic and no sulphur added.…