The Côte du Rhône's Cabaret Burlesque Wine Tasting

by Paige Donner

Côte du Rhône Wine Tasting in Paris on La Nouvelle Seine

The French wine region that is home to Châteauneuf du Pape really knows how to host a wine tasting in Paris. Chosen for this range of 22 wines was the charming and exceedingly festive La Nouvelle Seine.

La Nouvelle Seine is a very large boat/barge ("peniche" in French) parked just in front of the Cathédrale Notre Dame de Paris. It's large enough in fact to be able to host 80+ people on the top deck for a stellar wine tasting and then put on a burlesque show in its lower decks, replete with a dozen and more costume changes.

Inter Rhône, the regional wine board, is who organized the event and provided the wines for tasting.  The Rhône valley has many famous wine appellations of course, such as Chateauneuf du Pape, Hermitage and Vacqueyras but for this evening's tasting we had the privilege of discovering many outstanding gems with the Côte du Rhône Villages label.

It's a good thing the wines were so memorable given the spectacular distractions of the magnificent cathedral as backdrop and then the over the top and barrels of fun Burlesque show we were treated to.

Wines poured included:

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Maison Chapouter - Roc Folassière, Côte du Rhône Blanc 2015

Domaine de la Presidente - Côte du Rhône Villages Cairanne 2014

Domaine Pique Basse  L'Atout Pique  Côte du Rhône Villages Roaix 2015

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Domaine Les Grands Bois  Philippine  Côte du Rhône 2014

Domaine du Val des Rois  Signature Côte du Rhône Villages Valréas 2012

Domaine Clavel Cordélia  Côte du Rhône Chusclan  2014

Domaine Corinne Depeyre Les Phacélies Côte du Rhône 2012

Domaine Montirius Serine Côte du Rhône 2011

Maison Gabriel Meffre 1936  Côte du Rhône 2015

Domaine des Pasquiers Côte du Rhône Plan de Dieu 2014

Domaine de Cabasse Garnacho Côte du Rhône Séguret 2012

And the video that Inter Rhône made about the evening is here: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maldXIpJcco

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Waltzing With Chapoutier's Mathilda Rosé

"There aren't many other countries, besides France, that make rosé wines...". This is the surprising fact I was told by Team Chapoutier at their second annual Mathilda Rosé kick-off in Paris.​​​​​​​​

So when Chapoutier of both organic wine and Cote du Rhône fame took his game to Australia and decided to produce a fresh and fun rosé downunder, and then market it in France in time for the summer season, it was kind of like turning the tables on the two hemispheres, the new world sort of playing to the old.

In short, however you shake it, this Mathilda Rosé is a summertime winner. It's light and fresh and just fruity enough to make it thoroughly rosé-y. The fact that there are no added sulfites make you ever so thankful the day after.

And like a stroke of Australian sun, so far the only sunny day in June in Paris this season, was the day that Team Chapoutier chose to have their Mathilda Rosé beach party down by the Seine. Makes me wonder if we ought to be drinking more of this Mathilda?

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Episode 16 Paris GOOD food+wine

by Paige Donner

This episode 16 of Paris GOOD food+wine  focuses on Wine Tourism in two of France's most famous wine regions: Burgundy and Bordeaux. 

Mark O'Connell from Domaine de la Chapelle - at Aloxe-Corton en Bourgogne photo by Paige Donner copyright 2016

For many people passionate about wine, Burgundy remains the El Dorado of fine wines. And I don't mean just French wines, but all wines. So when I was invited last month, along with 2,500 other participants from 21 countries, to be a part of the Grands Jours de Bourgogne, held every two years, I literally jumped at the chance.

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Not often do we get the opportunity to taste hundreds of wines, all in beautiful terroir-centric settings, from esteemed appellations such as Volnay, Pommard, Corton-Charlemagne, Puligny Montrachet, Meursault, Chablis, Beaujolais, Clos Vougeot, Echezeaux and Nuits St. George.

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Four days of non stop wine tasting was enough to fall in love not just with the wines but with the Burgundy region itself.

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So who better to sit down and talk Burgundy with than the new owner of Château de Pommard. His name is Michael Baum and he hails from Silicon Valley.

Michael Baum (L), Emmanuel Sala (R) at Château de Pommard photo by Paige Donner ©2016

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This start-up specialist fell in love with Burgundy, too. So much so that he bought the emblematic chateau of the legendary Pommard Climat, the term the Burgundians use for appellation. Here you get to listen in on my conversations with Michael Baum, his winemaker, Emmanuel Sala and his Chief Commercial Officer, Ann Feely.

To round out our show this month, Episode 16 of Paris GOOD food + wine, I was able to catch up with Wine Spectator's sr. Editor, James Molesworth, as he dashed from Bordeaux back to New York City.

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He was barrel tasting his way through Bordeaux's 2015 En Primeur and he has some exciting news to share with us about both the 2015 Bordeaux vintage and also the friendly, vibrant city itself.

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So sit back and relax as we take you through a spectacular Wine Tourism show featuring France's two most famous wine regions, Burgundy and Bordeaux.

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#bourgogneGJB 2016 Meursault & Volnay

Saving the best for last... the 5th day of #bourgogneGJB included tastings of Meursault and Volnay.  It was my fourth day of tasting some of the best wines of the world and it felt, truly, like an embarrassment of riches. 

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Saving the best for last... the 5th day of #bourgogneGJB included tastings of Meursault and Volnay.  It was my fourth day of tasting some of the best wines of the world and it felt, truly, like an embarrassment of riches. 

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Beaune Fresh Market, en Bourgogne

Pictures tell a thousand words... A little sightseeing in Beaune's Saturday fresh market at the end of #bourgogneGJB  

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