Don’t know your pinot from your merlot? This basic menu of wine types from around the world will help you decipher any wine list. Beaujolais (boh-zhoh-lay): A light, fruity red wine from...
HI! I'm an Old White Woman. What are you? If you don't know your category you weren't paying attention when the talking heads were analyzing the results of the West Virginia primary and handing out categories left and right, especially right. It seems that the masses behaved badly--i.e.,...
The first day in a new job is always stressful. But when you are in charge of a 11bn budget covering buses, the Tube, police and fire services for one of the greatest cities in the world, you can be forgiven for having a few first-day nerves. ...
This vibrant, edgy city is the undisputed cultural center of Israel, effortlessly blending old and new. Known as the White City for all its Bauhaus buildings, it’s best appreciated by simply taking to the streets. Wander through the trendy Neve Tzedek neighborhood, just off the bustling...
Byline: Karen Goldberg Goff, THE WASHINGTON TIMES It is a finely tuned skill to tell the 2006 Celine & Laurent Tripoz Macon Loche from the 2005 Petite Chablis Domaine de Per-drycourt. Both are made from chardonnay grapes, but students in Washington Wine Academy's...
SIDE ORDER Daniel's Bistro The food here is classic French - think cassoulet, moules marinires, raclettes and home-made pte - with the emphasis on the finest Scottish ingredients. 88 Commercial Street, Leith, Edinburgh (0131-553 5933) Morgan M ...
rolling news al jazeera Al Jazeera has been bombed, banned and ridiculed - but its new English language version has accumulated viewers in 100 million homes after barely a year on air. Ian Burrell goes inside its London bureau to find out what makes the station...
FOOD & DRINK Under a Fiver 2006 Gestos Malbec, Finca Flichman Majestic's in-store tastings of Argentinian wines this week provide the chance to try this spicy Andean blend. Buy 2 = 4.79, list price 5.99, Majestic Wine Under...
I must recognize that nine out of every ten wines I taste are red. I'm a red wine person and my culinary taste is in accord to that. However, I must also recognize that some of my most pleasantly shocking memories of a great wine are of a white wine,...
Thursday At Autun, France Fifth Stage A 113.4-mile medium mountain stage from Chablis to Autun 1. Filippo Pozzato, Italy, Liquigas, 4 hours, 39 minutes, 1 second. 2. Oscar Freire, Spain, Rabobank, same...
AUTUN, France -- Team Astana missed last year's Tour de France over a doping probe. Now, its star riders have another problem -- crashes on the course. The squad's top two title contenders, Alexandre Vinokourov and Andreas Kloden, were injured in separate spills in the bumpy fifth...
AUTUN, France AFP — Italy's Filippo Pozzato Liguigas won a sprint finish to the fifth stage of the Tour de France, a 182.5km run between Chablis and here on Thursday. Fabien Cancellara CSC, winner of the prologue and the third stage, retained the yellow jersey with a 33sec...
AUTUN, France AFP — Germany's yellow jersey contender Andreas Kloden gave his Astana team a scare by tumbling into a ditch during the fifth stage of the Tour de France on Thursday. Kloden tumbled into a ditch at the left-hand side of the road, near the 107km mark...
Italy's Filippo Pozzato won the fifth stage of cycling's Tour de France today, as race favorite Alexander Vinokourov lost time after crashing. Fabian Cancellara of Switzerland keeps the overall lead. Pozzato, of the Liquigas team, won in a mass sprint finish, ahead of Oscar Freire of Spain...
Under a Fiver 2005 Pinot Noir La Grille, VDQS, Jacques Vigier, St Pourcain Does Majestic know where the best French pinot noirs are outside burgundy? First they find Guillaume pinot from Franche Comte and now they've rescued this refresher from the...
CAON CITY - Two massive blackboards hang on the walls of the old brick house that serves as Le Petit Chablis' dinning room. They are the only menu. Every night as the last diners stroll out of this highly regarded rural French dinner spot, the servers wipe the boards clean...
Remember Rhine wine, Mountain Chablis and Hearty Burgundy? When all fizz was Champagne, and Sherry and Madeira could be found in the cooking aisle? That was then. A recent World Trade Organization agreement cracked down on our use of those names, along with Burgundy, Chianti, Claret, Haut-Sauterne, Hock,...
There was a time, back in the Eighties, when Steve Davis was widely regarded as boring. He lacked the charisma - and the willingness to drink half a dozen bottles of Chablis before practice - of Alex "Hurricane" Higgins and he couldn't tell you about his days as a pool-room...
ABC, as most of you know, stands for "anything but Chardonnay." I hate the concept. Chardonnay is the most successful white wine in America, yet the wine industry turns up its collective nose at a wine most people enjoy. Success breeds contempt. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Why has...
Byline: Paul Lukacs, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES True Chablis, made wholly from chardonnay grapes grown in northern Burgundy, can be a difficult wine to buy. Unlike most white wines, it usually benefits from being aged and often tastes more complete and complex years...
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