Tag: french wine
- Catherine Fielden
- 22 Apr 2022
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Mouton Cadet’s new Organic Rosé offers a taste of the Atlantic
With several Bank Holidays coming up in fast succession, it’s a good plan to have some rosé chilling in the fridge ready to pour while you soak up the sunshine. And we have just the rosé to kick start your long weekends with a bit of French flair.
The recently launched Mouton Cadet Organic Rosٞé from Baron Phillippe de ...
- Catherine Fielden
- 1 Feb 2022
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A Tour of Bordeaux
French wine labels are notoriously difficult for budding wine enthusiasts to understand. Unlike their new world counterparts which state the wine’s predominant grape varieties on the label, the French traditionally specify the area where the wine was produced and make the assumption that wine buyers know which grape varieties are used in ...
- Catherine Fielden
- 1 Feb 2021
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Indulgent French Wines to Impress your Valentine
St. Valentine’s Day is just around the corner but this year we won’t be able to indulge our loved ones with an intimate meal at our favourite restaurant or an impromptu European city break. Instead, we will need to find other ways to make the 14th February extra special, in the comfort of our own homes. So, as France has the ...
- Catherine Fielden
- 22 Jan 2021
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Malbec: Catapulted from Humble French Roots to Global Super-Stardom
If you ask people to name a wine from Argentina, their initial response is usually “Malbec” and with good reason. In the past few decades, the country’s most widely planted red grape variety has become as synonymous with Argentina as tango and gauchos. Currently, Argentina accounts for around 75% of Malbec production and interest ...
- Catherine Fielden
- 10 Aug 2020
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The Crème de la Crémant
Crémant is undoubtedly one of France’s best kept secrets. While Champagne has achieved world-wide fame and status, crémant (pronounced CRAY-MONT) has fallen under the radar despite also being a French sparkling wine which is produced in the same way as Champagne. So what is crémant and what differentiates it from Champagne?
The term ...
- Catherine Fielden
- 15 Jul 2020
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Domaine Mirabeau: Ten Years in Provence
It has been over thirty years since Peter Mayle’s bestselling memoir “A Year in Provence” was published, detailing the trials and tribulations of leaving life in England behind and embarking on his long-cherished dream of relocating to the Provence region of Southern France. The book sparked an obsession among Mayle’s readers for the ...
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