Lancering nieuwe website
Hartelijk welkom op onze nieuwe website. Wij gaan u maandelijks op de hoogte houden brengen van onze activiteiten. In de toekomst komen hier ook de nieuwe verhalen en eveneens (af en toe) recepten.
Culinaire verhalen
And there’s more CHAMPAGNE to come
What would Reims or any other city be if we didn’t write about some restaurants or pastry-shops we have been to taste their cuisine and pastry. Nearby champagne-house Taittinger (an excellent and world-wide well known and respected family champagne-house) is ‘Bar Restaurant Le Square’. Owner of the place is Jean-Marc Jussaume. He worked in Paris …
CHAMPAGNE Mumm
In my previous article about champagne I talked about the city of Reims. It’s one of my two favourite cities I have seen so far in the champagne area. The other one is Epernay. In fact each of the two cities are divided in two parts. One overground and one underground. It seems a little …
REIMS
There are famous wine-places all over France. Reims is one of them. Reims is an important city in the champagne-region. Champagne is a sparkling wine from France. It can be made from the grape-varieties Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier. The first one is a white variety and the other two are red grapes. You …
MARGAUX
Before we went to Château Smith Haut Lafitte my wife and I decided to visit the village of Margaux. It looks very quiet and perhaps from the outside a little bit boring and old-fashioned. The village might surprise you. It isn’t very big and it hasn’t got a lot of nice shops but… It is …
Château Smith Haut Lafitte
In the Bordeaux region are some of the most prestigious wineries in the world. The best wines of the Medoc (Margaux, Pauillac, Saint -Estèphe and Saint Julien-Beychevelle) and the Sauternes (sweet wines) where classified in 1855 from Premier Cru to Cinquième Cru. In this classification they forgot to mention the wines of the wine-area Graves. …
BORDEAUX
Is a city with some very nice areas. One of the places to be in Bordeaux is the ‘Cité du Vin’ (The Wine City). This relatively new wine institution opened its doors in spring 2016. In this building you can find an incredible wine-shop (with wines from all over the world), a wine-boutique, a …