Given the opportunity to taste, learn and review a Beaujolais wine from Moulin a Vent and I snatched at it. This would be their 2019 vintage, shared by owner/director Edouard Parinet and his father Jean-Jacques who co-runs the winery. From the 2019 Château du Moulin-à-Vent Vintage Report Several factors made this vintage quite unique ……
Been a long time since I’ve had a Gamay wine from Beaujolais, France. Not to be confused with Nouveau Beaujolais, its younger sister that is presented every November fresh from bottling, this particular Gamay had some aging (see the tech notes below). I knew it would be red fruit on the nose and palate –…
We’ve all heard the tired cliché, red wine with meat and white wine with fish. I’m just curious as to who made these rules? In all my travels, I have yet to find where it is etched in stone that these rules are steadfast. I seriously doubt the wine gods consented to such mindless twaddle….
With the excitement of the holiday season around the corner we thought that it would be fun to see what wines the GOTN group serve for Thanksgiving. This was the first time the door was opened allowing everyone to bring wines they would normally drink rather than searching for a particular varietal that had been…
During our last meeting of Grape of the Night (GOTN) in September 2012 the group tasted and learned about a wine called Gamay Beaujolais. One of the points that I commented on was about a different fermentation process used in the Gamay region of France called carbonic fermentation. This process creates wines that have fruity…
Gamay Beaujolais It has been a while since I have written a follow up to GOTN. I have been slacking on what is expected of me so I will attempt to get back into your good graces. The GOTN on 10 September 2012 was to showcase a wine that is not normally selected or drank. …
Don and I traveled to Southern France this spring, combining a Viking River Cruise of the Saone and the Rhone rivers with a driving trip along the French Riviera. One reason for traveling with Viking is the complimentary (and free-flowing) wine and beer served with each shipboard lunch and dinner. Enough said. Another plus for…