Posts Tagged ‘Bordeaux’
Monday, February 27th, 2012
According to experts in the field is difficult to qualify a single came as the number one, but when discussing the best they are referring to “Petrus”.
The best Bordeaux is ” Petrus “to those who know about wine . Color and intense aromas, creamy on the palate and a unique balance. Consider that only occur almost as a privileged exclusivity for certain numbers that are more than 30,000 worldwide. The company manufactures the number of bottles annually and the growing process is somewhat peculiar.
Their grapes are native Pomerol, in the region of Libournais ( France ), a small wine-growing zone.
Only 11 hectares for a poor harvest and laborious attention to details to get the precious juice from the Merlot grape. His harvest is handmade logically “hand” and must not exceed 3 days of collection. “Petrus” is also a pioneer in the art collection “green” before the ripening of the grapes for a comprehensive quality control in addition to dismiss even 50% if necessary.
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Wednesday, February 15th, 2012
For those who love to enjoy the bouquet of fine wine and know their origins, discovering flavors and culture in each.
Arguably the wine, gastronomy and tourism go hand in hand, as in the fascination of traveling implies a discovery of each site you visit from their culture, history and architecture.
The wines of Tuscany, Italy
Wine producer par excellence, Italy is one of the leading producers and consumers in the world, Tuscany is one of the most important regions. It is the dream place for any tourist has sublime scenery in the eyes of one who travels by observing their seats as the Piazza del Duomo or The “David” by Michelangelo, if you are in Florence you can not miss the Gallery Uffizi, one of the great museums of Italy and the world whose gallery houses one of the oldest collections of art.
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Wednesday, February 8th, 2012
The 3-year-old La Cape may be the most exciting restaurant in Bordeaux. Chef Nicolas Magie, 30, is creating pure magic, and you are advised to reserve two weeks in advance for dinner in the 14-table, 50-seat dining room, which is run by Magie’s wife, Marianne, and able waiter-cum-sommelier Cédric Fuster.
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Thursday, December 8th, 2011
MALBEC (Red) [MAHL-beck]
Once important in Bordeaux and the Loire in various blends, this not-very-hardy grape has been steadily replaced by Merlot and the two Cabernets. However, Argentina is markedly successful with this varietal. In the United States Malbec is a blending grape only, and an insignificant one at that, but a few wineries use it, the most obvious reason being that it’s considered part of the Bordeaux-blend recipe.
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Sunday, December 4th, 2011
The undisputed king of red wines, Cabernet is a remarkably steady and consistent performer throughout much of the state. While it grows well in many appellations, in specific appellations it is capable of rendering wines of uncommon depth, richness, concentration and longevity. Bordeaux has used the grape since the 18th century, always blending it with Cabernet Franc, Merlot and sometimes a soupçon of Petite Verdot. The Bordeaux model is built around not only the desire to craft complex wines, but also the need to ensure that different grape varieties ripen at different intervals or to give a wine color, tannin or backbone.
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Tags: Bordeaux, Cabernet Sauvignon, Grape Varieties, Red wine, tasting, wine color
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Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011
Chile is a thermometer of a country, 2,650 miles long and averaging only 110 miles wide. At the bottom is frozen Antarctica; at the top, the world’s driest desert. Santiago lies right in the comfort zone, with warm summers and mild winters, cooler than Napa Valley but drier than Bordeaux. Serious wine vineyards begin just north of the city, and stretch 150 miles down the Central Valley, south to the town of Talca.
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Tags: Bordeaux, Cabernet, Chile, Grail, Napa Valley, Vinifera grapes
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Sunday, October 30th, 2011
Understanding the wine you taste is only half the battle; communicating your impressions to others in words is just as big a challenge. And since the wine itself disappears as you drink it, verbal descriptions are the only way to preserve the pleasure wine provides.
It’s easy to ridicule our feeble attempts to put wine into words. Perhaps the most famous satire on tasting notes is a James Thurber cartoon: Three people at a dinner table look quizzically at their host, who’s got a glass in his hand and a manic look in his eye, saying, “It’s merely a naive domestic Burgundy, but I think you’ll be amused by its presumption.”
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Wednesday, October 5th, 2011
Devising a buying strategy can be as simple as choosing a few brands you like and sticking with them, or as complex as collecting verticals (different vintages from the same producer) of the world’s greatest wines or buying wine futures.
For many wine drinkers, maintaining brand loyalty is a tried-and-true way to keep a cellar stocked with reliable wines that suit their taste and budget. More daring collectors expand their hobby of wine collecting into a more sophisticated enterprise: They keep tabs on new wines and vintages from old-guard producers in Bordeaux, Burgundy, Italy, Spain or Germany, and a watchful eye on up-and-coming producers from the New World, such as California, Oregon, Washington, Australia, New Zealand and Chile.
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Wednesday, June 1st, 2011
Bordeaux is a city in southwestern France, capital of the province of Aquitaine. Here there are 117,500 hectares of vineyards that produce some of the wines, both red and white, most prestigious in the world.
In 1948 it created the Bordeaux Wine Academy, composed of 40 academic quality assurance and wine culture of this land.
Bordeaux produces wines called “claret”, but now they are no longer known by that name and are the result of the mixture of pink and white grapes.
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Saturday, May 21st, 2011
Cabernet Sauvignon wine is from the French region of Bordeaux, this wine is an area that takes a big boom from the eighteenth century and its wines are marketed and imitated around the world. Although its origin is French, this variety is grown today along the northern temperate and warm the world.
This wine is characterized by its consistency and longevity, and a number of features that give rise to strains, such as soil composition and climate. The germination of this variety is medium-late.
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