Tagged with "Loire wine tours"

We had a wonderful day yesterday with Dana & Carlo from Minnesota. A day spent exchanging news & views on food, wine & life.

A fine meringue case encasing slowly roasted new season’s strawberries from Plougastel, a vanilla cream and a tart rhubarb sauce.

Do you know the difference between passerillage & botrytis? Sweet wines can be made with grapes affected by both. But what’s the difference?

They say that about houses don’t they? Location, location location! And it’s the same with vines.

This weekend saw the return of the Loire tasting events that mark the annual calendar after nearly 2 years of absence.

Inspired by a wonderful evening at Chez Marcel in Paris where I ate a version of this recipe, I decided to make it at home this weekend.

Domaine de Rochelles is a family run estate based in Saint Jean des Mauvrets, about 10 minutes from Angers.

It’s a while since we were in Anjou so it was a pleasure to drop in on Antoine and Nathalie Leduc of Leduc-Frouin last week.

I’m always a bit mystified when people tell me they don’t like ‘sweet wine’. They eat dessert, they love chocolate, they adore ice cream.

We popped over to see Arnaud Lambert last week for a long overdue catch up and tasting. Arnaud’s wines are some of our favourites from Saumur.

It seems like we’ve been in a bit of a vacuum these past two years and opportunities to taste with our favourite producers have been limited.

Nigel is pruning a parcel of Chenin Blanc in the Vouvray appellation again this year.