Gangs of Bordeaux!
A french paradox
I would like to react on the interesting post by Thibaut ‘french youth giving up on
The idea here is to give my opinion about the French ways to market their wine. It has been said in this article that marketing wine in France is coping with ‘cultural hurdles’ and focusing on the ‘terroir’ might be an explanation for a decrease in wine comsumption within the French young adult segment ( 20 to 25 ).
The post compares the French marketing approach to the American one, both of course focusing on different characteristics, one focusing on the concept of ‘terroir’while the other approach could be defined as ‘grape centered’.
First of all I am not sure that comparing the two aproaches is really relevant, just because they are targeting different customers, with different expectations and cultural backgrounds.
French Winemaking Enters the 21st Century
Following up on Thibaut’s recents posts concerning French consumption, I wanted to share my thoughts onFrench youth giving up on France's favorite past-time? (Part II)
Yesterday I discussed an article reporting on a study concerning a potential change in wine consumption among French youth. While I argued that the study itself is flawed, it does present at least one interesting conclusion: that young French found wine “confusing and old-fashioned.” How is that possible? More importantly, how is it, even possible that wine is on the decline in
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French youth giving up on France's favorite past-time?
After reviewing the latest wine news on Decanter.com, I wanted to react to an article I read about how “Young French view wine as ‘expensive and old fashioned.’” As a 26 years-old Frenchman, who spent time as a student living in the
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Loire Valley Wines Tasting
Monday, I had the opportunity to taste over 100 different wines from theThe
The third largest French wine region, the Loire follows the 630 mile
2008 Spring Tasting
- By: Thibaut
- On: 04/04/2008 11:38:40
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“March Madness” does not only refer to the NCAA Tournament coverage but also describes the month’s tasting schedule. After attending Italian Wines 2008, I had the opportunity to taste a number of really good wines at another spring tasting last week.
Fire up the grill?
Some may say it’s too early to start thinking about grill food, but I disagree. For the second weekend in as many weeks I found myself standing outside inhaling the sweet smells of meat cooking over hot coals. Before you assume it was warm out, it wasn’t, the first was out on Long Island (The Gambero Rosso's Italian Wines 2008 Tasting NYC
I had the good fortune of attending Italian Wines 2008, an annual tasting featuring the Gambero Rosso’s top wines from their latest wine guide. Snooth’s blog has an interesting take on the tasting, though the author did not attend this year, and I agree with some, but not all of what he wrote.Read all of The Gambero Rosso's Italian Wines 2008 Tasting NYC
The Dastardly Dollar
We’ve had a number of small tasting so far this year, and a few larger events, but the majority of our tastings will take place in the coming weeks culminating in the annual pilgrimage toWhen we taste, we attempt to consider each wine based on its merits, whether the tasting is blind or in arranged flights. Only after a wine has been tasted and discussed do we reference the price of the wine, and increasingly we are finding wines that are good, but not at the prices we would have to sell them at.