December 2009
25 posts
“Am drinking a fat whore of a California zin—super extracted fruit, almost...”
– An email from a friend. We don’t get wines like this in France…
“What we really need is simple. We need food that’s well prepared from good ingredients, served to us attractively and with respect (for the food itself, not just us).
And we need wines that are served co-equally: well-chosen, decently priced and presented to us in glasses that allow the wine to shine, that signal a respect for the effort that went into creating such wines and that, not...
The woman who taught France how to drink - The... →
thefoodoffrance:
[Empress] Josephine was also a celebrated hostess and, although not a great drinker, a great collector of wine. The official inventory of her possessions at her death includes more than 13,000 bottles of wine from all over the world, from the Cape to Hungary to Champagne. Study of her 1814 “wine list” reveals something that may seem unsurprising but was, at that time,...
