Tag: French Wine Scholar
The spring French Wine Scholar class drew to a close after a series of ten weeks of classes with 13 students sitting for the post nominal test. Congratulations to Coy, Andrea, Lansin, Marianne, Rebecca and Neal for becoming Utah’s...
The grand tour of French wines comes to an end this week. We finish our journey in Provence and Corsica.
Provence is France’s oldest winemaking region and the only one in the world to focus primarily on the production of...
The Rhône Valley is in southern France and divides itself into two distinct areas: Northern and Southern Rhône. Climates and soils vary greatly between the two but there are two things that connect them: the Rhône River and the...
Technically, Languedoc and Roussillon are in fact two distinct regions with separate historical and cultural backgrounds. However, in 1972 they were joined administratively and together comprise the largest winemaking region in southern France and share the same grape varieties....
We’ve arrived in the South of France this week in class. So, we turn our attention to Bordeaux and the wines of Southwest France.
The wines of Bordeaux are a revered French wine icon. They are age-worthy and highly prized....
The Loire Valley is known as France’s Garden. In 2000, the central (Middle) portion was designated as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. With more than 300 castles and chateaux, the French say that the Loire is a queen...
This week, we actually studied three regions in France: Savoie, Jura and Beaujolais.
Beaujolais
Beaujolais is a small wine growing region just to the south of Bourgogne. The land is only 34 miles long and 7-9 miles in width.
The grapes...
“The sparkling wine that is Champagne cannot be duplicated anywhere else on earth. Sparkling wines produced around the world, even when made from the same grape varieties, using the same production method, do not deliver the same product. They...
