A wine blog by Susannah Gold
Chateau Labadie This month, the French #winophiles are traveling to Bordeaux. We were charged with looking at what's new in Bordeaux. I choose Chateau Labadie, a winery that is located in Bégadan in the Northern Médoc. The winery is not new but it changed it's core nature in the 1970s when the Bibey family bought... Continue Reading →
Sweet Wines These wonderful wines showed up at my home some weeks ago and it seemed a gift from heaven during these hard times. I love wines made from these three grapes - Semillion, Sauvignon Blanc, Muscadelle, in all of their forms in Bordeaux and these four are such exceptional examples. Sweet Bordeaux is often... Continue Reading →
I am a big fan of Beaujolais of all kinds so today is a celebration in my book, it's Beaujolais Nouveau Day. Why am I such a fan? Here are 10 reasons: It was one of the first French wines I tasted.It is a friendly, easy drinking wine that will appeal to many and it's... Continue Reading →
Dubonnet was my Mom's drink of choice when I was in high school and college. She seemed so sophisticated to me. I had no idea what Dubonnet was and had no idea how to drink it. Apparently, I am the only one who didn't know about this drink because legions of people have been drinking... Continue Reading →
This month's #WinePW group traveled to an area of France where Vin de Savoie are produced. Our host, Jill Barth wrote this invitation post with some information on the area. Here interview with author Wink Lorch on the region can be found here. The area is in Eastern France and borders Switzerland. I've been to... Continue Reading →
This month's #Winophiles is staring the year with great ideas for newcomers to French wines. There are so many great posts that will be part of this series with lots of educational information for all. Jeff, from FoodWineClick.Com has already written some extensive ones which you can find here and here. My approach to this... Continue Reading →
I have been fortunate enough to celebrate La Fête Nationale Francaise – Le Quatorze Juillet, a holiday marking the anniversary of the fall on July 14, 1789 of the Bastille, in Paris on a number of occasions. As readers of this blog know, I was a Francophile in my early life and majored in French... Continue Reading →
This month's #winophiles is all about French wine and cheese. Martin Redmond of Enofylzwineblog, our host, posted a preview about the topic here. While some lucky few received samples, I bought my wine and cheese from local purveyors and had the occasion to speak to the lovely Hortense Bernard of Millesima USA. I used to... Continue Reading →
Chablis is one of the first wines I drank from France growing up. My parents used to buy it and they let me drink wine pretty early on following a couple of European vacations. For the longest time though, I am sure I had no idea about the grape variety used to make it or... Continue Reading →
I read the news today that Linda Lawry, DWS, CWE,CSS of International Wine Center fame has retired. Linda was a marvelous professor when I was studying for my Diploma in Wines & Spiritus. Funny and incredibly knowledgeable, she brooked no silly comments. I learned so much from Linda about French wines through the center and... Continue Reading →
