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!)
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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'anChâteau Barthez [Haut-Médoc]
Posted in Wines with tags Bordeaux, Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, cru bourgeois, French wine, Merlot, Petit Verdot on July 20, 2023 by xi'an
Cadence
Posted in pictures, Travel, Wines with tags Cabernet, Cadence, Merlot, Pacific North West, Petit Verdot, Red Moutain, Seattle, Washington State on December 20, 2015 by xi'an
Browne
Posted in pictures, Travel, Wines with tags Cabernet, Columbia Valley, Petit Verdot, Seattle, Walla Walla, Washington State on November 20, 2015 by xi'an
Brokenwood cricket pitch
Posted in Wines with tags Australian wines, Cabernet, Merlot, Petit Verdot, Shiraz on November 20, 2012 by xi'an
