Last weekend we biked to the Festival du Monde, which holds a series of events and interactions with the journal team, if not at the level of The New Yorker Festival. In and around the modern building of Le Monde, near Gare d’Austerlitz. As most sessions were already booked, with only one entry left for my wife (on the incoming US Presidential Elections), I stayed outside on the small plaza and listened to (blah) bands, tasted yummy olive oils from Brazil and Uruguay that were part of a Southern Hemisphere oil competition (Brazil won!), a tepid empanada, a comfort plantain banana bowl and Bordeaux red wine aged in clay amphoras! While speaking with the winemaker was very nice, from the mix of Petit Verdot and Merlot (even though the vineyard page mentions Malbec!), to the local making of the amphoras, the outcome (of this recent experiment) was not that great. (Still hoping for a Georgian orange wine experiment!)
Archive for Carmenere
Le Monde [festival]
Posted in Books, pictures, Travel, Wines with tags amphora, Bordeaux, Brazil, Carmenere, festival, France, Gare d'Austerlitz, Georgia, Le Monde, Malbec, Merlot, olive oil, orange wine, Paris, Petit Verdot, Seine, The New Yorker, Uruguay, US elections 2024, wine making on October 6, 2024 by xi'anCarmenère Misiones de Rengo
Posted in Mountains, Wines with tags Carmenere, Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, Chilean wine on May 20, 2014 by xi'an
Casa Mayor
Posted in Wines with tags Carmenere, Chilean wine on October 3, 2009 by xi'an
A decent Carmenere purchased at the local supermarket, from the same producers making the wonderful Casa Silva. A bit too acidic though… And not tanic enough (for a Carmenere!).
Carmènere (2)
Posted in Wines with tags Carmenere, Chile on August 21, 2009 by xi'an
Another great Carmenere, very well-balanced with a moderate tanic structure.
My favourite Chilean wine, with a pleasantly tanic body preserving its fruity sweetness and a superb constancy…
