Tag: Vin Jaune
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A French corner in Auckland
Where can you find a good selection of French wine, cheese and hospitality in Auckland? Jura wine too… In Nouveau Marché of course! Or, as it is known in New Zealand, Newmarket just to the west of the CBD. I discovered this French corner in Auckland at Maison Vauron. When you enter Maison Vauron you are regaled…
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Seven Days of Wine 1
Every so often I will post photos and tasting notes of particular wines I have enjoyed during my previous seven days of wine. And, very occasionally, I will tell you about one of the wines of the week I haven’t enjoyed… Last weekend we went to 18th Percée du Vin Jaune in the Jura. Amongst…
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Tapping the Vin Jaune in the Jura
This weekend is the 18th wine festival celebrating La Percée du Vin Jaune. It will be held in the neighbouring villages of Conliège and Perrigny, just outside Lons-le-Saunier. It has become very popular and there could be up to 50,000 visitors over the two days of celebrating the release of the ‘new’ vintage of Vin Jaune (6 years…
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Bacchus on the Left Bank, Paris
The day after the Nez dans le Vert Jura wine tasting we explored the middle of Paris to find small wine shops that stocked Jura wines. Near my old stamping ground of Boulevard Saint Germain on the Left Bank is the charming little wine shop called Bacchus et Ariane. In the covered Marché Saint Germain the…
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Elegant Jura arrives in London
On a chilly day in mid-May London welcomed a group of winemakers to the first Jura wine trade tasting in the elegant surroundings of Chandos House, W1. Duchess of Chandos room Céline and Jen, of Mandarin Communications, arranging the room
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Poulet au Vin Jaune
The Jura region in the east of France is blessed with beautiful scenery, idiosyncratic wines and delicious food, especially poultry raised in the AOC area of Bresse. Henri IV of France is remembered for saying: “If God keeps me, I will make sure that there is no sharecropper in my kingdom who does not have…
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Easter Lunch in Chinaillon
Yet another sunny day in the mountains, but a little too fresh to eat outside. Ah yes, there was another reason not to eat al fresco: the air is also redolent of the natural fertiliser, produced by the cows during their winter stay inside, which has been liberally spread on the surrounding pastures.
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Savoie Wines, and a Baby Vin Jaune
Earlier this week we had the opportunity to share some of our passion for the wines of Savoie and Jura – two wine regions of Eastern France where Wink is the anglophone expert. A wine colleague and his wife were on a ski week (skiing? No such luck this year as the snow’s gone!) staying…
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A snappy wine for a fish dish
The Jura is a fascinating wine region in eastern France, home to particular and unique styles of wine, especially Vin Jaune, an amazing wine which you have to learn to love. Situated 80 kms east of Burgundy, it is France’s smallest wine region with only 1,600 hectares of vineyards with a number of small wine…
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All the Nines: Ninety Nine and others
One evening in February we invited four friends, all wine lovers, to a dinner with the theme of drinking wines from vintages ending in ‘nine’. Guests were invited, and we arranged between us what wines we would bring from our cellars – as you can imagine with older vintages more reds were available so we…
Brett, The Wine Maestro 