Back in January of 2000 I was working for a prominent Burgundy House that has been family owned since the 1700’s. Burgundy is the birthplace of the illustrious Pinot Noir grape, among others. On a quite January evening a colleague of mine and I were invited to taste some New World interpretations of the Pinot …
In layman’s terms Foxtrot Market is a modern General store for hipsters. You can purchase anywhere from household goods like soap to organic, family and estate wines from France. They also offer you very good tea/coffee from one of Chicago’s finest roasters: Metric Coffee. Foxtrot Market also has lounges that you can sit in while enjoying your favorite …
Matt Straus Jan 14 · 4 min read Trying to engage with the possibility that tariffs of 100% could soon be applied to European wine has felt something like sleepwalking. Might it really happen? While we know, in this political moment, not to count chickens before they hatch, judging by the growing seriousness of the protestations of people …
See Marc Brice’s guest appearance on 654 3/4 Daily Supertasters as he blind taste a tRUMP wine. See if he can pick up the distinctive nuances that truly put the tRUMP name on the label. A wine not worthy of any Tariff?
Welcome to J Soif – a Podcast and Blog. A play on French words for I’m thirsty. Thirsty for all things French. Why? Because French culture is so re-Frenching. French culture has always been associated with life’s little guilty pleasures first and foremost wine and food. On these podcasts we celebrate the ambassadors of French …
