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A Traditional-Style Small Farmer – That’s What Winemaker Agathe Bursin Would Call Herself (Alsace – Day 4)

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(Click here to read Alsace – Part 1) (Click here to read Alsace – Part 2) (Click here to read Alsace – Part 3) Here is someone who has known what they wanted to be since the age of three: Agathe Bursin, winemaker of The Agathe Bursin Winery, in Alsace,

A Way of Life: A Small Family Winery, Built on 500 Years of Alsace Tradition (Alsace – Part 3)

Becky Sue Epstein

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2 min read

(Click here to read Alsace - Part 1) (Click here to read Alsace - Part 2) Seriously, can you think of anything you can do today that people enjoyed in the 1500s? Drinking the wines of Domaine Emile Beyer is the only thing that comes to my mind. This winery

What If Your Mother Was a Winemaker? (Alsace – Part 2)

Becky Sue Epstein

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2 min read

(Click here to read Alsace - Part 1) What would you do if your mother suddenly started making wine? Well, it would be a little different if your mother (and you) lived in Alsace, France. This is what happened in Pierre Bernhard’s family about forty years ago. And now Pierre

What Do You Talk About With Someone Whose Family Started Making Wine in the 17th Century? (Alsace – PART 1)

Becky Sue Epstein

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2 min read

I recently spent a (virtual) week in Alsace, France getting to know the wines through a handful of small, family wineries in the area. With 400 years of modern winemaking at the Jean-Baptiste Adam Winery, I have to admit I was a bit intimidated to talk with young Laure Adam

The search for high-quality Cava begins in Penedès

Tracy Ellen Kamens

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5 min read

As sparkling wines continue to grow in sales in the U.S., wine drinkers are looking for alternatives to Champagne, but what about higher end imports from Spain? More specifically, is high quality Cava an oxymoron? Although oceans of Spain’s sparkling Cava wash up on U.S. shores each year, high end

How Valais put the charm in Chasselas

Simon J Woolf

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7 min read

When Michel Chapoutier mentioned in 2011 that he was considering planting a Chasselas vineyard in the UK, some may have thought this was the ultimate insult to “le vin Anglais” - the famously neutral variety is increasingly ostracized in French vineyards, and is so disliked that even when it appears

Fifty Shades of Grenache

Roger Morris

Features

5 min read

A multifaceted grape gets not-so-tough love at a Roussillon competition. Outside our jury room, where we are sequestered in a restaurant on the outskirts of Perpignan, the February sun is fighting to overcome the chill of the night before. On another day, the room might be hosting a boisterous wedding

Are you sure you’re an epicure?

Evan Dawson

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7 min read

Epicurus would not have given a damn about “how to cook your Thanksgiving turkey like a Peking duck.” He would have found the prices and boasting vulgar if he could see the menu (95 euros for macaroni stuffed with truffles and duck foie gras) at Epicure restaurant in Paris. He

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A Dog, a Mountain Hike and Gin

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A Traditional-Style Small Farmer – That’s What Winemaker Agathe Bursin Would Call Herself (Alsace – Day 4)

A Way of Life: A Small Family Winery, Built on 500 Years of Alsace Tradition (Alsace – Part 3)

What If Your Mother Was a Winemaker? (Alsace – Part 2)

What Do You Talk About With Someone Whose Family Started Making Wine in the 17th Century? (Alsace – PART 1)

The search for high-quality Cava begins in Penedès

How Valais put the charm in Chasselas

Fifty Shades of Grenache

Are you sure you’re an epicure?