Two nice pieces spotted today:
Like almost all white Burgundies, Mâconnais wines are made from chardonnay grapes. Yet their contrast with California chardonnays is extraordinary, and they serve as a delicious introduction to what makes white Burgundies distinct.
Good article by Eric Asimov today in the New York Times
A few nice pieces found today:
I’ve loved the work of architect Frank Gehry, and the new ‘Hotel Marques de Riscal’ looks like a continuation of that Guggenheim genre – except. Except that from some angles, I’m sorry but, what the…
Here it’s looking good – or at leasing interesting.
But here? Are recent pictures from Baghdad and Falluja his current inspiration? Methinks he’s lost the plot. Perhaps too many bottles of vintage Rioja…
Learn more from the articles in Expatica and the architects website.
Photos, copyright Thomas Mayer.
I finally got around to reading some of this (June 16th-22nd) issue of The Economist. and was drawn (unsurprisingly) to the ‘Charlemagne‘ article devoted to wine. Great quotes abound – how about:
“Wine is different, it has a soul,” says Ferdinand Hoffstetter, who is a big wheel in the grand duchy’s [Luxemburg] ministry of agriculture and viticulture. At dinner, guests may discuss a wine they are drinking. “One does not discuss cauliflowers.”
See – it’s not just boring stuff in the Economist 😉
Did you already eat?
Bertrand Celce is bringing plenty of colour to your desktop…
Time to dust down your Spanish dictionary.
Here’s a vertical of de Montille’s Pommard 1er Pezérolles in the very pretty site of Victor Franco.
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