VOL.01
Do you know where the oldest classified wine region is in Europe? (Don’t worry, I didn’t). It’s not Bordeaux, it’s not Porto in Portugal or Chianti in Italy. In a corner of Northeast Hungary is the little-known Tokaj wine trail, and here, many of the stone wine cellars were built as early as the the mid-1500s. [...]
A member of Reddit.com uploaded this snap of a school assignment done by their friend’s daughter. The assignment was to write one sentence about a family member and draw a picture about it. This is what the kid came up with… This is probably why parents should check their kids’ homework more often. Not for mistakes [...]
Between the 19th and 20th century, wine barrels would travel via canal boat from the regions of Burgundy all the way to Paris which were then traded at the riverside cellars of Bercy, destined to grace the tables of thirsty Parisians. Today, there is one little houseboat, known as ‘La Cave Vagabonde‘, still making the [...]
I had you at ‘Free Wine & Cheese‘, didn’t I? If you’ve been umming and ahhing over what to do this summer, I might have an idea for you. Through the grapevine (mind the pun), I heard about France Passion, a society of more than 1,750 friendly private wine-growers and farmers across France that invite [...]
Storm is a look into the life of winemaker, Ernst Storm, a South African native with vineyards in the Santa Ynez Valley. Over the period of a fall grape harvest, the documentary gives an intimate portrait not only of the winemaking process and the beautiful landscapes of wine country, but more importantly it is [...]
I noticed the Christmas lights were suddenly hanging in the streets of Paris today, as if they had been installed on some covert mission to begin force-feeding us with merry Christmas joy. Of course once you’ve passed the age of twelve, Christmas for you only means being slightly drunker and getting a little fatter. But [...]
So I came across a game-changer this morning on that wild and wonderful place called Pinterest. Just imagine how this picnic table / wine cooler / instant bar could improve your al fresco summer dining and help you become a better wino… The table pictured above was designed by Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects but [...]
Consider the scenario… It’s a sunny Friday afternoon, you’ve just finished work and you head out to sit in the park with friends and some well-deserved wine. You find the perfect spot under the perfect tree, lay out your mat, shades on, legs stretched out, jokes are being made about the earlier staff meeting; a [...]
Two things can happen. Either your gag reflex will kick in … OR you will become instant best friends like me and Martini Bianco did (but we’re no longer friends these days). How did this happen? Coming from those crafty little clog-wearing people in the Netherlands, ChocoVine (so crafty) is a bit of a secret delicacy [...]
The French have always been doing it but in the 1970s it became especially trendy to throw a ‘cheese & wine’ party… And then, like most things that were cool during the seventies, it became very uncool and pretty cheesy (pun semi-intended), just like the smiles on these people’s faces in the retro food advertisement [...]
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