2007 Franck Peillot Roussette du Bugey Altesse de Montagnieu

Good lord, this was good. If fresh and clean had an aroma and a taste–it would be this wine. Amazing wet snow, mineral, and stone aromas, with some leafing out and citrus aspects. Then the wine was crisp and citrusy, very refreshing without being at all fruit-laden. My first from this producer, but not my last.

2007 Domaine Labbé Vin de Savoie Abymes

A simple, acid-driven white, it opened with lemon -lime and a crisp streak of acid. As it got warmer pineapple became predominant. This is a simple, inexpensive, regional wine, of interest primarily as a unusual curiosity. WHO Domaine Labbé WHAT Jacquère WHERE France, Savoie WHEN 2007 HOW MUCH $14 PDRTJS_settings_761141 = { “id” : “761141″, [...]

A Doughboy France: A Palate Press Veterans Day Tribute

This story comes from the war diary of my grandfather, Archie Brick, one of the first Americans in Europe in World War I. It is the story of every American doughboy, as told in one man’s diary.