The Vine Route

How three, little Corsican pigs made their way to Burgundy

Tom Fiorina — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 17:26:06 +0000

How three, little Corsican pigs made their way to Burgundy is a post from: The Vine Route

How three, little Corsican pigs made their way to Burgundy is a post from: The Vine Route Once upon a time, in a faraway place called La Bourgogne, there was a wine fairer than any other in the land. Its fame was such, that, like “Madonna,” or “Frank,” or “Elvis,” or other famous celebrities, this [...]

Detecting microbacterial wine contaminants

Tom Fiorina — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 14:15:50 +0000

Detecting microbacterial wine contaminants is a post from: The Vine Route

Detecting microbacterial wine contaminants is a post from: The Vine Route Making a quality red wine, one with pleasing fruity aromas and tastes, and an excellent complexity and balanced structure is a long and arduous task. All kinds of things can go wrong between the time that the grapes begin to emerge on the vines [...]

Some interesting wines at the nearby Natural wine shop

Tom Fiorina — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 09:45:39 +0000

Some interesting wines at the nearby Natural wine shop is a post from: The Vine Route

Some interesting wines at the nearby Natural wine shop is a post from: The Vine Route The March wine tasting at our neighborhood “Natural” wine shop, Le Temps des Vendanges, featured two winemakers from the Loire Valley, one from St Chinian in the Languedoc, and one from Gaillac, one of the closest wine appellations to [...]

Mary Kay and the Eagles might be right about pink bubbly

Tom Fiorina — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 09:14:33 +0000

Mary Kay and the Eagles might be right about pink bubbly is a post from: The Vine Route

Mary Kay and the Eagles might be right about pink bubbly is a post from: The Vine Route I get a lot of comments, when I tell people that I’m enrolled in a French œnology program, about how lucky I must be to taste so many French wines. We do a minimum of two or [...]

Corsican Master Tasting Class at Vinisud 2012

Tom Fiorina — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 14:24:04 +0000

Corsican Master Tasting Class at Vinisud 2012 is a post from: The Vine Route

Corsican Master Tasting Class at Vinisud 2012 is a post from: The Vine Route From February 20-23, the wine world’s eyes were turned towards Montpellier, in the south of France, and the biennial Vinisud wine salon. More than 33,000 wine buyers, journalists, sommeliers and oenologues attended the event. A selection of wine from 1,700 winemakers [...]

Research in how to improve French wine

Tom Fiorina — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:27:03 +0000

Research in how to improve French wine is a post from: The Vine Route

Research in how to improve French wine is a post from: The Vine Route My DNO (Diplôme National d’Œnologue) class in Toulouse recently visited the IFV V’innopôle station in southwestern France. This is one of eighteen Institut Français de la Vigne et du Vin centers located throughout the country. Our class had visited an INRA [...]

Authentic winemaking 101: A natural work cycle

Tom Fiorina — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:06:15 +0000

Authentic winemaking 101: A natural work cycle is a post from: The Vine Route

Authentic winemaking 101: A natural work cycle is a post from: The Vine Route One of the requirements of my oenology studies in France is a three-month winemaking internship. I chose to do mine with Didier Barral, a Languedoc winemaker who I’ve written about several times before on this blog. With his cows roaming freely [...]

Authentic winemaking 101: Burning stakes

Tom Fiorina — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:42:49 +0000

Authentic winemaking 101: Burning stakes is a post from: The Vine Route

Authentic winemaking 101: Burning stakes is a post from: The Vine Route One of the requirements of my oenology studies in France is a three-month winemaking internship. I chose to do mine with Didier Barral, a Languedoc winemaker who I’ve written about several times before on this blog. With his cows roaming freely in the [...]

George Taber, author of Judgment of Paris,takes a look at the Bargain Wine Revolution

Tom Fiorina — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 11:27:11 +0000

George Taber, author of Judgment of Paris,
takes a look at the Bargain Wine Revolution is a post from: The Vine Route

George Taber, author of Judgment of Paris,takes a look at the Bargain Wine Revolution is a post from: The Vine Route I met George Taber, the author of Judgment of Paris, the 2006 wine book that told the story of the seminal 1976 blind tasting in Paris where a panel of top French wine experts [...]

Going wild about salad in the Languedoc

Tom Fiorina — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 17:30:01 +0000

Going wild about salad in the Languedoc is a post from: The Vine Route

Going wild about salad in the Languedoc is a post from: The Vine Route “Would you like to pick some salad?,” my maître de stage, Didier Barral, asked me one afternoon late in my wine-making internship required for my French œnology diploma. We had just finished moving the 50-or-so semi-wild cows that he allows to [...]