Stirring revelation

>> Friday, 30 January 2009

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Oak barrels for fermenting and aging white wine. One barrel has the wooden end removed and replaced by a plexi glass sheet to allow inspection of the wine or must inside. Detail of the edge of the barrel where you can see the dead yeast cells that have fallen down to the bottom of the barrel.
When you do batonnage, stirring of the lees, this deposit is again put in suspension.

Domaine Yves Cuilleron, Chavanay, Ampuis, Rhone, France, Europe.

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Topless - less blushing

>> Thursday, 29 January 2009

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Stainless steel fermentation vats from above, removable tops for pigeage (punching down of the cap) and for inspection. Most stainless fermentation vats are closed-tops but sometime they have removable tops. This can improve colour and flavour extraction. (And make sure the wine does not look like, in american parlance, blush wine.)

Domaine Yves Cuilleron, Chavanay, Ampuis, Rhone, France, Europe.

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Clean up your act

>> Wednesday, 28 January 2009

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A wooden barrel with a silicone bung hole stopper and a metal wire on which there is a sulfur pellet burning to clean the barrique. Domaine Yves Cuilleron, Chavanay, Ampuis, Rhone, France, Europe.

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Syrah

>> Wednesday, 21 January 2009

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A Syrah vine trained in 'taille cordon royat'. Rhône: Domaine du Colombier (Florent Viale) in Mercurol, Crozes-Hermitage.

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Strutt your stuff

>> Tuesday, 20 January 2009

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Hermitage growers are not shy of advertising their names. many have big signs, painted white and black, in the vineyards with their names.

Chapoutier and Jaboulet are the two most famous names. Both used to be owned by the founding families but a few years ago, due to succession issues I believe, Jaboulet was sold to the Frey family who are best known (in the wine world) for being a chateau owner in Bordeaux.

Today there are talks of making some kind of quality classification of the vineyards in Hermitage, but it is said that the big names are agains the idea since it might mean that they would have to take away their huge white name signs. (Although I don't quite see the logic.)

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Take the plunge(r)

>> Monday, 19 January 2009

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On top of some wooden fermentation vats. The vats are covered with tarpaulin since they are not in use. The conical thing is a machine to do 'pigeage' (pressing/pushing down of the "cap" during fermentation, a "plunger"). M Chapoutier. rhone Valley, France.

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Natural fertiliser

>> Friday, 16 January 2009

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In other words, manure, cow (horse?) dung,... In the vineyards of the organic and even biodynamic vineyard Le Pavillon in Hermitage och M Chapoutier. rhone Valley, France.

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Bellet 2

>> Wednesday, 14 January 2009

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Terraced vineyards and the Chateau de Bellet. What a view...

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Bellet

>> Monday, 12 January 2009

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Bellet is a small appellation close to Nice on the French Riviera. It is almost disappearing, being too close to the city and giving way to building construction. The views are fabulous, so you can understand why.

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Let't get some cheese with the wine

>> Friday, 9 January 2009

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French goat cheese - chevre - with herbs on a white plate on a wooden table. Young (not aged) fresh type Clos des Iles Le Brusc Six Fours Cote d’Azur Var France.

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And this is the village

>> Thursday, 8 January 2009

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In the harbour in Cassis village. Fishing and liesure boats at the key side. Cassis Cote d’Azur Var France Bouches du Rhone.

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Cassis or cassis?

>> Wednesday, 7 January 2009

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Cassis is a pretty fishing (well, before the tourist invasion) village on the French Riviera. Around the village they make a white wine AOC Cassis. It is also the French word for black currant liqueur, the one that makes Kir when blended with a white wine (preferably Bourgogne Aligote). The village and the wine is pronounced [kasi:'], without an ending 's', whereas the black currant syrup is pronounced [kasi's]. But even the French regularly makes mistakes with this.

A waiter in white coming with a tray of glasses with Kir aperitif bright red translucent, in motion blurred unsharp, colourful, made by mixing white wine, traditionally Burgundy Aligote, with black currant (called cassis in French) liqueur Cassis Cote d’Azur Var France Bouches du Rhone.

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Against the times

>> Tuesday, 6 January 2009

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When it is freezeing and five below zero here in Paris, here's a picture that can perhaps thaw one's frozen feet a bit.

Three Sailing boats at sea outside Bandol Bandol Cote d’Azur Var France.

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This is not art

>> Monday, 5 January 2009

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A white painted iron stand to dry bottles with bottles standing upside down, the same style of stand was used by Marcel Duchamp as a work of art at an exhibition. Chateau Vannieres (Vannières) La Cadiere (Cadière) d’Azur Bandol Var Cote d’Azur France.

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Do you wish you had one too?

>> Friday, 2 January 2009

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Piles of old bottles aging in the cellar, rouge red 1999 written on the chalk board Chateau Vannieres (Vannières) La Cadiere (Cadière) d’Azur Bandol Var Cote d’Azur France

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