It may seem like I only drink champagne but that’s not true. Sometimes I drink sparkling wine, too. All kidding aside, I do enjoy a good sparkling wine and some of my favourites are cremants. A cremant is a French sparkling wine that does not come from the Champagne region. It’s as simple as that. So for example, you...
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The next day we had an early start, catching the train to Saumur, a short 45 minute train ride away. The weather was not as nice in the morning but as the day went on it cleared up to be a sunny afternoon. Seriously, when you’re on a bicycle, you don’t want it to be TOO sunny now do you? We headed through the vineyards...
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I tend to go on a fair amount of press trips as a wineblogger and they are all fantastic. I mean who wouldn’t enjoy the chance to visit the winemakers in their own milieu, tasting wines that quite possibly have been resting in the cellars for years or wines that never even leave the estate but are saved for special visitors....
read moreCheers! Salut! Salud! Tchin tchin! and now you can add… Trinch! I came across Trinch! the other day. What are it’s origins you might be asking? Well, since you asked, the origins of the word come from Old French, ”trinquer”, or “toast” in English, which was corrupted into… tchin, tchin....
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