Every April hundreds of journalists, wine experts and wine merchants descend upon Bordeaux for En Primeur. It’s the event where the wine world gets their first taste of the most recent vintage, straight out of the barrel. While it’s a fascinating couple of days tasting wine until your teeth and fingers are quite literally stained […]
Wine Tasting on an Arcachon Bay Cruise
Bordeaux is world-famous for its wine. But the French, even the Europeans really, have been keeping a secret. Bordeaux isn’t just fabulous because it produces some of the best wine in the world. It’s a city well positioned and a stone’s throw from several of France’s most beautiful natural wonders, including one of our favorites: […]
A Foodie Getaway at Bordeaux’s Smallest Winery
Bordeaux is synonymous with the finest wines in the world, but it’s a city that is also fast becoming a haven of culinary delights. With star chefs like Gordon Ramsay, who opened his second Bordeaux restaurant earlier this year, and an influx of young, innovative chefs, the restaurant scene has come to life. It wasn’t […]
Chateau Haut-Sarpe: The Versailles of Saint-Émilion
Chateau Haut-Sarpe is one of the oldest wine estates in Saint-Émilion. The chateau itself was modeled on the Petit Trianon at Versailles, otherwise known as Marie Antoinette’s cottage, and is set among vineyards and gardens. Living in Bordeaux, I can taste most of the regions wines at the various wine bars in the city. So […]
La Cite du Vin: Bordeaux’s Wine Museum
When we tell people we live in Bordeaux, the response is “Great wine, but what city do you live in?” Bordeaux is indeed one of the most famous wine regions in the world, but it’s also a city. A gorgeous honey-colored neoclassical city married with the remains of a medieval town…but that’s a story for […]
The Art of Pairing Food and Wine at Cafe Kandahar
I recently ate an 11-course meal. Yes, you read that right – ELEVEN courses. An 11-course wine pairing meal, at that. But when a James Beard multi-time semi-finalist is personally cooking for you and teams up with a sommelier to pair perfectly matched wines that accentuate the food, you eat every last bite. I definitely […]
Israeli Wine: From Mines to Vines
Most travelers to Israel expect a trip of biblical proportions, and they should. After all, you can visit the Western Wall where the ancient Temple of Jerusalem once stood, the Church of the Holy Sepulcher that stretches over the holiest sites in Christianity – the crucifixion, entombment, and resurrection of Jesus – and the Mount […]
Girl Scout Cookie Wine Pairings
It’s that time of the year where you can’t walk into a grocery store or Target without running into cute little girls pedaling those addictive boxes of Girl Scout Cookies. You might usually pour a big tall glass of milk to dunk those cookies in. I even like the Trefoils with a nice cup of […]
Kalispell’s Craft Brews
Did you know Montana is number two in the good ‘ol US of A for the most craft breweries per capita, just behind Vermont? I didn’t either until I road tripped from Missoula to Whitefish recently and discovered Montanans wear their beer-loving status as a badge of honor. There’s a brewery in nearly every town […]
The River Cruise for Wine Lovers
I didn’t love the ocean cruise we’ve been on, but when Viking River Cruises invited me to explore Bordeaux on their Chateaux, Rivers and Wine cruise, the allure of all the French Bordeaux wine I’d no doubt be sipping convinced me to give river cruising a try. The verdict? I absolutely loved my Bordeaux Viking […]
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