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Le Monde [festival]

Posted in Books, pictures, Travel, Wines with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on October 6, 2024 by xi'an


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!)