
Archive for French wines
Château La Coste [jatp]
Posted in Kids, pictures, Travel, Wines with tags Ai Weiwei, Aix-en-Provence, Bob Dylan, Cabernet, Chardonnay, Château La Coste, clair obscur, contemporary art, Coteaux d’Aix-en-Provence, French wines, jatp, Languedoc wines, Le Puy-Sainte-Réparade, organic wine, Provence, sauvignon, Syrah, Vermentino, Yoko Ono on September 20, 2026 by xi'an
Aloxe-Corton
Posted in Travel, Wines with tags Aloxe-Corton, AOC, Burgundy wines, Côte d'Or, Côte de Beaune, French wines, Grand Vin de Bourgogne, Ladoix-Serrigny, pinot noir on March 20, 2026 by xi'an
Cédric, le retour ?
Posted in Books, pictures, University life with tags apéro, book review, Brittany, café, Cédric Villani, Ecology, French politics, French wines, interview, Le Monde, Libé, Louis Lyons, Morbihan, Paris, Rennes on January 12, 2026 by xi'an
Within a non-Euclidean distance of a few issues, Le Monde and Libération both ran an interview of Cédric Villani, not truly a coïncidence since he recently published Leçons de mathématique joyeuse, a general public book on mathematics (I did not read), derived from a series of conferences he gave in Paris ten years ago. With a chapter on the best and the worst errors of (Henri) Poincaré, where he states that statistics is a late-comer in the mathematics pantheon because “it is complicated, it is even completely counter-intuitive.” However, there is very little on mathematics and research in these interviews, as the interviewers are clearly more interested in the politics of Villani, a former deputé and unsuccessful candidate for the City of Paris mayorship. Although he is now teaching in both Lyon and Rennes, since he currently lives in a nearby village that happens to be very close to my family house in Morbihan.
rosumarinu Sant’ Armettu
Posted in Mountains, Travel, Wines with tags Best served cold, Corsica, Corsican wines, Denfert-Rochereau, French wines, maquis, mare e monti, Paris, Propriano, red wine, rosemary, rosumarinu, Sartène, sciaccarellu on October 20, 2025 by xi'an
Saint-Joseph (red!)
Posted in pictures, Travel, Wines with tags French wines, Mont Pilat, red wine, Rhône valley wines, Saint-Joseph, Syrah, Vallée du Rhône on September 20, 2025 by xi'an
