Tag: Wine and spirits
Wine fair 2023: the best deals on online sales sites
Like every year, L’Express analyzed and tasted the plethora of offerings from mass retailers, wine merchants and specialized sites to decipher the trends at autumn wine fairs. The share of…
Wine fair 2023: auctions, instructions for use
Great wines improve with age. What a pleasure to take a twenty-year-old classified Bordeaux wine out of your cellar, to delicately remove its cork, to smell it to make your…
Wine fair 2023: the guide to good deals
Like every year, in September, the harvest time is accompanied by that of the wine fairs. The autumn meeting of large retailers with bottle diving enthusiasts has become unmissable. In…
Spirits, short counter notes: a vintage in whisky, “ready to drink” cocktails…
Whisky: the vintages of Maison Lineti Can we still innovate in the world of whisky? Yes, according to the iconoclastic concept of Maison Lineti, launched in Saint-Emilion by Alex Cosculluela…
Mixology: with rose or pickle, gin raises the tone
The passion for gin does not dry up. Even the stars are rushing into the niche, like Brad Pitt who launched his at the last Cannes Film Festival, or Emma…
“We have just had a historic year”: the revival of Cuban rum
Some successes are revealed when half-wins arrive. Example, the mojito, the very embodiment of the “cuban attitude”. This biblically simple drink was created in Havana, one of the historic cocktail…
Champagne, counter briefs: Le Rocher chooses Carbon, a revolving restaurant at Mumm
Le Rocher chooses Carbon The Monegasque red diamond is Alexandre Méa’s four-leaf clover… The adventure began in Monte-Carlo, in 2017, when the flamboyant CEO of Champagne Carbon became the official…
Christophe Juarez: “We want to make Abelé the Hermès of Champagne”
L’Express: You started your career in marketing and international luxury houses. How did you get into the world of wine? Christopher Juarez : I am indeed a lay brother! In…
Champagne: cooperatives are moving upmarket
Champagne also made its revolution. 2022 is proving to be a year of records: shipments (this is what sales in the realm of the bubble are called) at the highest…
The Alsace Wine Route, ChatGPT in winegrower mode… The tour of counter briefs
Alsace charts its course It was on the occasion of a car rally, on May 30, 1953, in a festive and folkloric atmosphere, that two processions of flowered floats set…