This post will (finally) wrap up my trip with my friend David Raccah of Kosher Wine Musings to France this past November. I have to say the most fun part of each of these trips is the time that we get to spend together when we are NOT at formal tastings with other people. Its … Continue reading France – November 2023 – Part 4 – Hotel Wines
Blaye Cotes de Bordeaux
France Trip 2022 – Part 5 – The Blind Tastings
This will be my final post about my most recent trip to France – but buckle up – it’s going to cover over 60 wines! Before I even get started, I have to thank my partner in crime, David Raccah of the Kosher Wine Musings blog. He does all of the logistics work for these … Continue reading France Trip 2022 – Part 5 – The Blind Tastings
France Trip 2019 – Part 4 – A Visit in Roanne with the QPR Kings of France – Taieb
If you read my last post, you can guess that we wanted to waste no time getting out of that nutty hotel in Lyon. So we woke up at 5:30 and made our way to the train station by foot. The trip from Lyon to Roanne is just over 2 hours. With no coffee, I … Continue reading France Trip 2019 – Part 4 – A Visit in Roanne with the QPR Kings of France – Taieb
France Trip 2019 – Part 3 – Strasbourg & Lyon
After Koenig, we headed back to Strasbourg for a quick dinner and then to Nathan Grandjeans’s house for what was to be a mega-tasting of about 30 wines. David had pre-picked about 25 of them for Nathan to arrange, and as I mentioned – just for fun we had stopped at a local kosher grocery … Continue reading France Trip 2019 – Part 3 – Strasbourg & Lyon