Hotel du Vin [SEP] founder
Robert Barclay Cook


. Converting character buildings into boutique hotels, Cook was also responsible for the expansion of the Hotel du Vin brand to thirteen hotels, two Pub du Vins and a Bistro du Vin to be opened in Clerkenwell, London. The two branches of Bistro du Vin in Clerkenwell and Soho did not perform as well as hoped, recording a loss of £330,000 in the 18-month period to June 2011. The brand ceased trading in May 2011. Not one of Cook's finest moments, but also not one of his worst. In
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Hotel du Vin


Hotel du Vin is a luxury boutique hotel chain that has nineteen hotels throughout the United Kingdom, co-founded by Gerard Basset and Robin Hutson. The hotel chain was founded in Winchester in 1994 by Gerard Basset and Robin Hutson, who had both previously worked at the Chewton Glen hotel where Basset was the head sommelier and Hutson the Managing Director. The name "Hotel du Vin" was a reference to Basset's wine expertise. At the time Basset was a Master Sommelier; he went on to become a Master of Wine
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Hotel du Vin


(1998). KSL Capital purchased the Hotel du Vin chain and the Malmaison hotel chain early in 2013, before selling both hotel brands to Frasers Hospitality for £363m in 2015. Subsequent hotels were established in other locations including Brighton, Tunbridge Wells, Bristol, Birmingham, Harrogate, Henley-on-Thames, Cheltenham, Glasgow, York, Cambridge, Exeter, Newcastle, Poole, Wimbledon, Edinburgh and St Andrews. As of 2015, Hotel du Vin were operating sixteen hotels across the UK in university locations,
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Hotel du Vin (Tunbridge Wells)


The Hotel du Vin & Bistro is a hotel in Crescent Road, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England. It lies in between St Augustine's Catholic Church and Eynshym House. The hotel is part of the Hotel du Vin chain. It is located in a Grade II listed sandstone building dated to 1762 and overlooks Caverley Park. The building was extended in the 1830s by Decimus Burton and contains 36 bedrooms, a billiards room and a boules court as of 2011, although 32 rooms and 1 suite were reported in 2001. John
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Scotch Malt Whisky Society


company's members only bar. The second Kaleidoscope venue is based in Devonshire Square in central London. It also has branches in Australia, Austria, Benelux, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Poland, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, and the U.S.A. In 2010, the Society partnered with The Hotel du Vin & Malmaison group to introduce a new 'whisky snug' bar concept to the Aberdeen Malmaison, Brighton Hotel du Vin and Birmingham Hotel du Vin. Casks are only
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Bartholomew Broadbent


’s L’Academie du Vin and a founder of L’Academie du Vin in Toronto. Broadbent produces, under the Broadbent label and through his company Broadbent Selections, a variety of wines which include Port and Vinho Verde in Portugal, Malbec in Argentina and Gruner Veltliner in Austria as well as a selection of Madeiras. He is the largest importer of Madeira into North America. Broadbent set up the Dragon's Hollow in China's northern-central Ningxia Hui region which is the first internationally focused winery in China, and in South Africa he launched
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Robert Barclay Cook


with Formula One racing driver David Coulthard. In 2004, Cook returned to Malmaison as Chief Executive Officer. Marylebone Warwick Balfour, the group's owners, then purchased the Hotel du Vin collection of boutique hotels. Cook has been responsible ever since for the growth of both groups and the development of two distinct hotel brands. Taking the "Hotels that dare to be different" mission statement from Malmaison, Cook as a director of Marylebone Warwick Balfour took the brand from three hotels to a mass of twelve hotels across the United Kingdom
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Gerard Basset


the title upon his sixth attempt in 2010. In 1994 Basset co-founded Hotel du Vin with partner Robin Hutson, by opening their first hotel in Winchester. The chain grew to six hotels before selling to MWB Group in October 2004. In 2007, Basset opened Hotel TerraVina in the New Forest near Southampton with his wife Nina. Hotel TerraVina closed at the end of February 2018 and reopened on 5 March as kitchen café, deli and boutique B&B, Spot in the Woods Basset's book, "The Wine Experience"
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Odette Kahn


was later portrayed in the movie "Bottle Shock". Kahn was an expert in the field of French gastronomy and wines, for which she was a well-known ambassador throughout the world. After graduate studies in one of the best French business schools (HECJF), she became first the assistant director, and then the editor-in-chief of two magazines, “Cuisine et Vins de France” and “Revue du Vin de France”. In 1968, after the death of Madeleine Decure, co-founder
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Charles Finkel


Charles Finkel (born September 25, 1943) is a designer, entrepreneur, artist and founder of Bon-Vin, Merchant du Vin, and The Pike Brewing Company in Seattle, Washington. Charles began marketing wines from small family owned California wineries in the 1970s and was the first to market the wines of Washington State throughout the country. In an article in Wines and Vines Magazine in 1970, Finkel was the first to use the term ""boutique wines"" to describe small, family owned wines of quality.
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Corsica wine


island and includes the smaller sub-regions of Vin de Corse-Coteaux du Cap Corse, Vin de Corse-Calvi, Vin de Corse-Figari, Vin de Corse-Porto Vecchio and Vin de Corse-Sartène AOCs covers specific regions and generally mandates lower yields than the Vin de Corse AOC. The Muscat du Cap Corse AOC includes the vin doux naturel wines produced in the northern peninsular tip of the island. The Patrimonio wine region is located on the northern coast of the island, west of the city of Bastia
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Malmaison (hotel chain)


private equity firm KSL Capital Partners purchased Malmaison for an estimated £180 million in March 2013. Under KSL ownership a hotel was opened in Dundee. In May 2014, Malmaison stopped serving "foie gras" in their hotel restaurants after a campaign by animal rights group PETA. In January 2015, under guidance from investment bank UBS, KSL sought prospective buyers for Malmaison and the Hotel du Vin chain (HDV). Private equity firms, Terra Firma Capital Partners and TDR Capital, were identified by Sky News in March 2015 as
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One Devonshire Gardens


One Devonshire Gardens (officially known as "Hotel du Vin at One Devonshire Gardens") is a luxury hotel located in the West End of Glasgow, Scotland. It is well known for its celebrity guests, including Michael Jackson, George Clooney, Kylie Minogue, Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake, Robbie Williams, Gwyneth Paltrow, Whitney Houston, Lionel Richie, Graham Riley and Jon Bon Jovi. The hotel holds a licence as a marriage venue. Devonshire Gardens is a B-listed terrace of five townhouses, constructed in the
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Robin Hutson


manager of Chewton Glen at 28 years old. In 1994, Hutson co-founded the Hotel du Vin chain with Gerard Basset. In 2004, they sold the company for £66 million. He was chairman of the Soho House Group until 2009. Since 2009, Hutson has worked closely with chemicals billionaire Jim Ratcliffe on several projects, and Ratcliffe spent £40 million on the Lime Wood hotel in Hampshire, which Hutson runs. They met because their children were at school together. Home Grown Hotels is an equal shares partnership
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T. Coleman du Pont


other American hotels. Together with Lucius M. Boomer, president of Boomer-du Pont Properties Corporation and husband of Jørgine Boomer, du Pont owned a number of other hotels. In 1918, they purchased the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City, then in 1920 the Willard Hotel in Washington, D. C. and in 1925 the company purchased The Bellevue-Stratford Hotel in Philadelphia from the heirs of the founder, George C. Boldt. In 1915, du Pont acquired control of The Equitable Life Assurance Society from J. P. Morgan
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Georges Duboeuf


Georges Duboeuf (born 1933 in Crêches-sur-Saône, Saône-et-Loire) is the founder of Les Vins Georges Duboeuf, one of the largest and best-known wine merchants in France. The company is known especially for its popularization and production of Beaujolais wines, leading to Duboeuf's nicknames of "le roi du Beaujolais" (the king of Beaujolais) or sometimes "pape du Beaujolais" (Pope of Beaujolais). Duboeuf was born on a Good Friday, April 14, 1933 in Crèches,
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Brakspear Brewery


— the only Englishman to become Pope. In 1812, the brewery moved to a Thames-side location on New Street. In 2002, W.H. Brakspear & Sons licensed the brewing of its beers to Refresh UK, owner of Wychwood Brewery, and the brewery ceased production and closed. The site was sold and part of it converted to a Hotel du Vin boutique hotel. The now non-brewing Brakspear Pub Company and its estate of 104 pubs was bought in 2006 by pub chain JT Davies for £106 million; the
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Mas Cal Demoura


Mas Cal Demoura is a wine domaine situated near the village of Jonquières in the Terrasses du Larzac appellation in the north of the Hérault region, Southern France. Working with the regional red varieties of Syrah, Grenache, Mourvèdre, Cinsaut and Carignan, (once described by its founder as the 'Five woman of the Languedoc'), and the white varieties Chenin blanc Grenache blanc, Roussanne, Viognier, Muscat and Gros Manseng, the domaine has been described by "La Revue du vin de France" as, 'One
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Route du Vin Half Marathon


The ING Route du Vin Half Marathon () is an annual road running competition over the half marathon distance (21.1 km/13.1 mi) which takes place in late September in Remich, Luxembourg. It is organised by the Luxembourg Athletics Federation and it is a member race of the Association of International Marathons and Distance Races. It is sponsored by ING Luxembourg. Established in 1962, the name for the competition stems from the region's wine-making tradition ("Route du Vin" being the French for "Wine Route")
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James Martin (chef)


London, 2 Michelin star restaurant The Square in Mayfair, London and another 2 Michelin star restaurant, Harvey’s, in Wandsworth, London. After this he spent two years as a Pastry Chef at Chewton Glen Hotel. At the age of 22, Martin set up the Hotel du Vin in Winchester as Head Chef. He first appeared on television in 1996 with programmes including "James Martin: Yorkshire's Finest" (set in various Yorkshire locations with an emphasis on Yorkshire cuisine), "Ready Steady Cook" and "
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Dilworth School


is the school's flagship campus. Junior Campus The Junior Campus was opened in 1993 and is located in Remuera, Auckland. The campus accommodates 192 boys from Years 5 - 8. Rural Campus - Te Haerenga The new Rural Campus (sometimes called the 'Rural Campus - Te Haerenga (The Journey)') was officially opened in March 2012 after the Trust Board purchased the liquidated hotel and spa, Hotel du Vin. The campus – on 15 ha grounds in Mangatawhiri, south of Auckland – accommodates another 100 students in
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Israeli wine


Parker has been rating Israel's wines for more than five years now, when many Israeli wines received a score of more than 90. Yatir Forest wine by Yatir winery was granted more than 90 points for seven vintages in a row, the same accomplishment made by Domaine du Castel's Grand Vin wine. The Cabernet reserve of Flam winery of the Judean hills, was included in the important ' La Revue Du Vin France' French magazinelist of 100 outstanding wines. Galil Mountain winery won two awards in the 'Citadelles du Vin
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Cheltenham Town Hall


and Mrs Edward J. Burrow, and was installed in 1928. When resident with the Royal Corps of Signals at the Moray House Hotel (now the Hotel du Vin) from 1943, Sir Norman Wisdom performed at the hall in Army charity concerts, after one of which actor Rex Harrison came backstage and urged him to turn professional. The Town Hall is now used for concerts, banquets, meetings, dances, balls, exhibitions, conferences and as one of the major homes of Cheltenham Festivals. Cheltenham Town Hall is now part
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Hotel du Cap


The Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc is a resort hotel in Antibes on the French Riviera. Built in 1869 as a private mansion, it opened as a hotel in 1887. The founder of France's "Le Figaro" newspaper, Hippolyte de Villemessant, built the Villa Soleil in 1869 for writers seeking inspiration. In 1887, Italian hotelier Antoine Sella bought the property, and opened the Grand Hôtel du Cap in 1889. In 1914, the Eden Roc pavillon was built 400 yards away from the main hotel. Gerald
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Abouriou


the Loire Valley. It is a permitted variety in the Côtes du Marmandais AOC and is widely grown around the commune of Cocumont located just southwest of Marmande. It is also used as both a blending and varietal component in several "vin de pays" of the southwest including the "'Vin de Pays de Landes du Lot-et-Garonne" that covers most of the Lot-et-Garonne department and the "Vin de Pays de L'Agenais" that covers the western end of the Lot-et-Garonne around
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Vin de pays


du Comté Tolosan (south-west), Vin de Pays de Méditerranée (south-east, Provence and Corsica) and Vin de Pays des Comtés Rhodaniens (Rhone valley). Two further regional Vin de Pays designations, Vin de Pays de l'Atlantique (Bordeaux and Charentes (Cognac)) and Vin de Pays Vignobles de France (all of wine-making France) were approved by French authorities in 2007, but (together with Vin de Pays de Gaules for the Beaujolais region) remain disputed and as of July 2009
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Michel Bettane


Michel Bettane is a leading French wine critic, and for twenty years, a writer for the French consumer wine publication "La Revue du vin de France". He left "La Revue" in 2004 to work for the rivaling wine publication "Le Classement des Meilleurs Vins de France". He now runs his own website. Following the acquisition of "La Revue du vin de France" by "Marie-Claire" and media group Lagardère, Bettane and his colleague Thierry Desseauve left the publication on grounds of editorial differences
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Vin de pays


, they remained unpublished in the Official Journal of the European Union due to actions taken by other French wine producers. The Vin de Pays Vignobles de France has now been replaced by a table wine designation Vin de France, launched in August 2009. Each regional Vin de Pays is divided into several departmental Vins de Pays, of which there are about 50. The names are derived from the French departments in question and the limits exactly the same as the department's borders. For example, Vin de Pays du Gard is one
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Vin de pays


may take their name from some historical or geographical phenomenon, such as Vin de Pays des Marches de Bretagne or Vin de Pays des Coteaux de l'Ardeche, or even a more locally specific variant. The boundaries of a zone may reflect a consistent terroir, rather than an administrative convenience, and could potentially in the long run achieve the status of an AOC. The conditions to respect to be allowed to use the classification Vin de pays are the following: In terms of volume, Vins de Pays d'Oc and Vin de Pays du
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Vin jaune


jaune" is then bottled in special squat bottles that hold 62 cl (21 ounces), called "clavelins". Historically the bottle size alludes to the amount of wine left over after six years of aging and evaporation. The "Appellation d'origine contrôlée" regions permitted to produce vin jaune include Château-Chalon AOC, Arbois Vin Jaune AOC, Cotes du Jura vin Jaune AOC and Vin Jaune de L'Etoile. Those protected "appellations" have existed since 1936. There are also a few other vin jaune-style wines made
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Châteauneuf-du-Pape AOC


regularly drank the wines from the vineyards to the north and did much to improve viticultural practices there. Under John XXII, the wines of this area came to be known as "Vin du Pape", this term later to become Châteauneuf-du-Pape. John XXII is also responsible for erecting the famous castle which stands as a symbol for the appellation. In the 18th century, the wines were shipped under the name "vin d'Avignon". Records from the early 19th century mention wines of the name "Châteauneuf-
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Patricia Erbelding


had a major exhibition during the summer at the Eva Doublet Gallery. Curated by Lucette Bielle, the Musée du Vin of Paris hosted an exhibition of Erbelding's works in 2013 This followed the collaboration between Erbelding and the Domaine de Viaud Vineyard in Pomerol, managed by Bielle, where one of her paintings is used for the label on the 2007 vintage. At the 2014 opening of The Peninsula Paris hotel, Erbelding's artworks are found in every room of the building. The Artists’ book in collaboration with the writer Régine Detambel
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Vin de pays


Val de Loire (previously known as Vins de Pays du Jardin de France) are responsible for the majority of French exports. Originally, Vin de Pays designation was commonly viewed as inferior to an AOC Appellation, often being ascribed to thin and simple wines. However, since the late 1980s, an increase in demand for varietal wines has led some French producers and cooperatives to produce more Vin de Pays, especially Vin de Pays d'Oc, to make varietal wines with some form of designation, while turning away from the highly restrictive
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Vin de liqueur


wine is left with a high level of residual sugar because most strains of yeast cannot reproduce at such a high alcohol level. "Vins de liqueur" are available in many regional styles and varieties of grape. Grapes from the Champagne region are used for the production of ratafia. The Rhône region makes a wine known as "rinquinquin", and the Languedoc region produces a local "vin de liqueur" that is called "cartagène". The Jura wine region produces a "vin de liqueur" called Macvin du Jura
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Rhône wine


excess production of many domains and cooperatives is released as Vin de Pays which are marketed as Vin de Pays du Gard, Vin de Pays de Vaucluse, etc., or are sold to blenders of wine from the European Union, and mass food distribution for sale as own brands. Excess wines of the lowest quality, Vin de Table, occasionally become part of the wine lake and are reprocessed into industrial alcohol. Rhône does not have an official classification using "Grand cru" or similar terms, in contrast to Bordeaux or
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Marie-Thérèse Chappaz


Marie-Thérèse Chappaz (born 1960) is a Swiss winemaker best known for her dessert wines. Her vineyards are located in Fully (Valais) and cover an area 8 ha which are organically farmed. She is member and founder of Les Artisanes de la Vigne et du Vin. In 2015, Gault Millau declared Chappaz an "icon of Swiss wine" and she was shortly after named "Lady of Wine" at the Villa d’Este Wine Symposium. Born in 1960, Chappaz initially considered a career as a midwife. In
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Stout


. With such a small quantity of oats used, it could only have had little impact on the flavour or texture of these beers. Many breweries were still brewing oatmeal stouts in the 1950s, for example Brickwoods in Portsmouth, Matthew Brown in Blackburn and Ushers in Trowbridge. When Michael Jackson mentioned the defunct Eldrige Pope "Oat Malt Stout" in his 1977 book "The World Guide to Beer", oatmeal stout was no longer being made anywhere, but Charles Finkel, founder of Merchant du Vin, was curious enough to
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Musée du Vin


The Musée du Vin (in ) is a cultural venue in the 16th arrondissement located at 5, square Charles Dickens, Paris, France next to the Trocadéro and the Eiffel Tower. The nearest métro station is Passy. It opened in 1984. The museum testifies to the richness and diversity of the French craft of winemaking, through an exposure to tools and objects used to work the grapevine and the wine. The collection is shown in an old setting from the Middle Ages and arranged later in storerooms by the Tiny Brothers of
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Cocks & Féret


Traite sur les vins du Medoc" (1824) by William Franck. A French translation was proposed by Féret, which led to "Guide de l'étranger à Bordeaux et dans la Gironde. Bordeaux, ses environs et ses vins classés par ordre de mérite" published in 1850, with further emphasis on classifying wines in order of merit. This directory would be considered the first edition of "Bordeaux et ses Vins". Charles Cocks died in 1854, while the second edition, "Bordeaux et ses Vins 2ème édition",
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Comité Interprofessionnel du vin de Champagne


"Le Comité Interprofessionnel du vin de Champagne" (CIVC) is an organisation grouping the actors of the Champagne production and trade - growers, cooperatives and merchants - under the direction of the government. It is charged with organizing and controlling the production, distribution, and promotion of the wines of Champagne as well as conducting research. Until 1990 it set the price of grapes and still intervenes to regulate the size of the harvest and to limit the production of wine in order to maintain market prices. One of the prominent activities
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Cité du Vin


The Cité du Vin is a museum as well as a place of exhibitions, shows, movie projections and academic seminars on the theme of wine located in Bordeaux, France. The cost of the construction has been underestimated. In January 2011, the cost of the construction had been estimated at 63 million euros excluding taxes. But at the end of 2014, as the construction was in progress, the cost of the structure has been re-evaluated to reach 81,1 million euros excluding taxes. Its official opening by the President of
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Jon Winroth


, continuing his wine education through such notable tasters as Odette Kahn (editor of the RVF), Richard Olney and Robert Gauffard, who were both esteemed contributors. His first son, Eric, was born in 1968 and his second, George, in 1970. In 1972 he founded the "Académie du Vin" with Steven Spurrier and led many of the wine-tasting courses given there. The "Académie du Vin" appeared in worldwide headlines in 1976, the bicentennial of the American Declaration of Independence, for a blind
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Tyne Tees Steam Shipping Company


The Tyne Tees Steam Shipping Company provided shipping services in the United Kingdom from 1904 to 1943. Four companies came together in 1904 to form the Tyne Tees Steam Shipping Company. These were: Passenger services were operated between Newcastle upon Tyne, London and the continent until the Great Depression in the United Kingdom. The vessels and interests of the company were purchased by Coast Lines in 1943. The former Headquarters building is now the Hotel du Vin. Newcastle and Sunderland to London / Antwerp / Rotterdam / Amsterdam / Dordrecht / Hamburg /
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Domaine Armand Rousseau


in the late 1910s and 1920s, the domaine began to bottle and sell its own wine in the 1930s after advice given by Raymond Baudoin, founder of the La Revue du vin de France. Armand Rousseau was among the first few producers to bottle his own wine in Burgundy, with the majority of other growers in the region selling their wines to négociant businesses to bottle and sell. Rousseau was also a pioneer within Burgundy in selling his wine to the United States market after the end of prohibition in the mid to late 1930s
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Steven Spurrier (wine merchant)


Steven Spurrier (born 1941) is a British wine expert and former merchant who has been described as a champion of French wine. Spurrier organized the Paris Wine Tasting of 1976, which unexpectedly elevated the status of California wine and promoted the expansion of wine production in the New World. He is also the founder of the "Academie du Vin" and Christie's Wine Course, in addition to authoring and co-authoring several wine books. Having been educated in Rugby School and the London School of Economics, Spurrier entered the
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Jura wine


a "vin de paille" made from Chardonnay, Poulsard and Savagnin, a sparkling "Crémant du Jura" made from slightly unripe Chardonnay grapes, and a "vin de liqueur" known as "Macvin du Jura" made by adding marc to halt fermentation. The French chemist Louis Pasteur was born and raised in the Jura region and owned a vineyard near Arbois that is still producing wine today under the management of Jura's largest wine firms: Henri-Maire. The climate of Jura is continental with many similarities to Burgundy
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Bay du Vin, New Brunswick


Bay du Vin is a small but picturesque unincorporated community located on the south shore of Miramichi Bay, 24 km east of the former town of Chatham (now a part of Miramichi), New Brunswick, Canada. It is suggested that its name comes from a corruption of the French "Baie de Vents" meaning "Bay of Winds" rather than the widely supposed "Bay of Wine" in the literal translation. The community is reputed to be the oldest European settlement in Northumberland County, New Brunswick, having been established
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Bay du Vin, New Brunswick


The area was later settled by the Irish and English. Bay du Vin had the first regional high school with both academic and vocational training in the province. It was established by the Reverend Douglas Smith, but was phased out in 1966 and eventually replaced by Miramichi Rural School. The area is known to be rich in smelts, oyster beds, Atlantic salmon and cranberries. It is a very pretty area with the Willistons being one of the more noted family names. A well known lumberman, Luther Williston, son of a
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Charles Finkel


states west of the Mississippi for D.G. Yuengling brewery of Pottsville, Pennsylvania. As the exclusive U.S. importer, Merchant du Vin acted as the sole United States agent for English breweries Samuel Smith Brewery and Melbourne Bros; German breweries Brauerei Ayinger and Pinkus Muller and Belgian breweries Orval, Lindemans and Rodenbach. According to Michael Jackson in Ultimate Beer, ""Portland and Seattle are the top two craft-beer markets in the world. Perhaps because the beer-importer Merchant du Vin was located in Seattle, that city's restaurants were
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Le Conseil Interprofessionnel du Vin de Bordeaux


Le Conseil Interprofessionnel du Vin de Bordeaux, or CIVB, the Bordeaux wine Bureau, created in 1948, is a French interest group that represents nearly 10,000 Bordeaux wine producers and growers, and 400 "négociants". It is by some estimated to be the most important wine industry body in France. A private association under the responsibility of the Ministère de l'Agriculture (Ministry of Agricultural Affairs), CIVB seeks to promote the interests of its members via national and international communications channels, conduct research into market trends in both production to
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Thomas Osano


won the Crim 10-Miler, Breda Singelloop and the Brussels 10K. A runner-up finish in 60:36 minutes at the Route du Vin race was a lifetime best for the half marathon event. Osano ran in no less than 27 road races in Europe and the United States in 1996. These took in wins at the CPC Loop Den Haag, Parelloop (a career best for the 10K run at 28:02 minutes), Bay to Breakers, Tilburg Ten Miles and Route du Vin Half Marathon. He had a similarly-planned 1997
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Bay du Vin, New Brunswick


by French settlers from St. Malo, France in 1672. They established their community along the south shore of Miramichi Bay, just east of Gardiners Point. With some of the deepest water along Miramichi Bay, Bay du Vin was one of the most important early settlements in the region. Eventually there were close to fifteen buildings and a chapel, later destroyed by English settlers. English destroyed the village during the Gulf of St. Lawrence Campaign (1758) of the expulsion before crossing the bay to do the same to Burnt Church.
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Jeffrey Davies (wine merchant)


University of Bordeaux under Émile Peynaud, Davies initially wrote for the Les Amis du Vin magazine. Writing in 2011, Robert Parker attests to its influence: "I knew of him long before I ever met him (in 1983 at a little chateau in Pomerol)...he was the European writer/Bordeaux expert for the defunct Les Amis du Vin magazine...the first serious wine magazine, and in its day, excellent...Jeffrey's reports from Bordeaux were part of my required reading long before I left the practice of law to
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Academie du Vin


The Académie du Vin was established in Paris in 1973 by Steven Spurrier as France's first private wine school. It is associated with the 1976 Judgement of Paris blind wine tasting which brought recognition to California wines. Spurrier had opened the Caves de la Madeleine, a wine store in 1970. In 1973, he partnered with International Herald Tribune writer Jon Winroth and Patricia Gallagher to open the school in a former locksmith shop adjacent to his store. Its original mission was to teach wine appreciation to ex-patriate British and Americans living
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Corsica wine


The sub-region of Vin de Corse-Porto Vecchio is located on the southeastern coast around the city of Porto Vecchio. The sub-region of Vin de Corse-Figari is situated around the southwestern town of Figari, located between Sartène and Porto Vecchio. The sub-region of Vin de Corse-Sartène is located northwest of Figari and is centered around the town of Sartène. Around the communes of Figari and Sartène are the few remaining vines of Bariadorgia/Carcajolo blanc remaining. The Muscat du Cap Corse region includes
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Odette Kahn


with Edmond Saillant (aka Curnonsky) of “Cuisine et Vins de France”, Odette Kahn became director of Société française d’éditions vinicoles, the publisher of "Cuisine et Vins de France" and "Revue du Vin de France". She was a member of the International Academy of Wine, as well as forty wine and gastronomy fraternities throughout the world. She is the author of a cookbook published by Calmann-Lévy in 1977 under the title "La Petite et la Grande Cuisine". She also collaborated in the writing
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La Revue du vin de France


La Revue du vin de France is a French magazine on wine published monthly. The publication has been described by wine critic Jancis Robinson as "France's only serious wine magazine". Following the magazine's acquisition by Groupe Marie Claire in 2004, long-affiliated wine critics Michel Bettane and Thierry Desseauve left the publication citing reasons of editorial differences. Its editor Denis Saverot accused the French government of contempt for French culture, after a Paris court ruled that a "Le Parisien" article on Champagne was considered advertising subject to the
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Vin Mariani


Vin Mariani (French: "Mariani wine") was a tonic and patent medicine created about 1863 by Angelo Mariani, a French chemist from the island of Corsica who became intrigued with coca and its economic potential after reading Paolo Mantegazza’s paper on coca's effects. In 1863 Mariani started marketing a coca wine called Vin Tonique Mariani (à la Coca du Pérou) which was made from Bordeaux wine and coca leaves. The ethanol in the wine acted as a solvent and extracted the cocaine from the coca leaves, altering the
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South West France (wine region)


and the wine region of South West France, and some of its grapes are used to make Vin de Pays under the designation "Vin de Pays de Côtes de Gascogne" or mixed with Armagnac to produce the mistelle Floc de Gascogne. South West France is a rather heterogeneous region in terms of its wines and how they are marketed. It is rare to see wines being sold as "Vins du Sud-Ouest". Rather, the smaller areas and individual appellations market their wines under their own (smaller) umbrella,
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Maury AOC


15%. Non-fortified table wines produced in the southern reaches of Maury AOC along the Agly valley have been previously eligible for the Côtes du Roussillon-Villages AOC or to be sold as a "vin de pays" under the "Vin de Pays des Côtes Catalanes" designation. For the 2011 vintage, a new AOC designation of Maury Sec was introduced to allow for dry table wines produced from the same grape varieties permitted for the "vin doux naturel". In 1998, Maury had of planted vineyard producing 48,086
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Maison Devambez


Paris. The 1927 book Les Arcades des Champs Élysées celebrated the achievement of the architect Marcel Duhayon. Marcel Duhayon designed luxury hotels in Paris : Hotel Royal Monceau, Hotel Commodore, Hotel California, Grand Hotel des Ambassadeurs. He was the uncle of Suzanne Goyard, the wife of François Goyard, the grand-grand son of the founder of Goyard, the Parisian trunk maker founded in 1853. The luxury shops of the day were celebrated in the pochoir illustrations by Édouard Halouze in the Almanach du Masque d’Or, in 16 pages
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Château Champlain


The Montreal Marriott Château Champlain Hotel, commonly known as the Château Champlain, is a historic hotel located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, overlooking Place du Canada, at 1050 De la Gauchetière Street West. Opened on January 11, 1967, the Château Champlain was constructed by CP Hotels to accommodate the crowds visiting Expo 67. At the time it was the tallest hotel in Canada. Canadian Pacific Railways chairman Buck Crump proposed naming the hotel after the explorer and founder of Quebec City and New France, Samuel de Champlain. Canadian
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Coteaux du Lyonnais


Coteaux du Lyonnais is an "Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée" (AOC) for wine in central-southeastern France. This wine-growing area is located on the slopes of the Monts du Lyonnais, a mountain range to the west of Lyon and in the eastern part of Massif Central. AOC status was granted on May 9, 1984, and was signed by the then Minister for Agriculture, Louis Mermaz. Previously Coteaux du Lyonnais was classified as VDQS from 1952, and could also be called Vins du Lyonnais. The vineyards belonging
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Sud Ouest (newspaper)


magazines "Le Résistant" (Libourne), "Haute Saintonge" (Jonzac), "Haute Gironde" (Blaye), "l’Hebdo de Charente Maritime" (Surgères), "La Semaine du Pays Basque", "La Dépêche du Bassin" and "Le Journal du Médoc". The weeklies "La Semaine du Roussillon", "le Journal de Millau", "l’Aveyronnais", "le Catalan Judiciaire", "Terre de Vins" and "Terres Catalanes", all published in Languedoc-Roussillon
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Frédéric Lornet


also makes two sparkling wines: "Cremant du Jura" and "Crémant du Jura Rosé". It also makes pure Savagnin wine and a Ploussard named "L’Abbaye" after the ancient Cistercian abbey where they are made. Moreover, Lornet makes a wine from the rare Trousseau grape he calls "Trousseau des Dames", a unique Vin de Paille and some Macvin. The common Appellations to all the Abbaye de la Boutière wines are: Côtes du Jura, Côtes du Jura Mousseux and a Crémant du Jura along with more localized
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Savagnin


make a conventional dry white wine in L'Étoile and Côtes du Jura, the fortified Macvin du Jura, a sparkling wine called Crémant du Jura It is also blended into Côtes du Jura vin de paille, a dessert wine made from grapes left to dry on straw. The Gringet of Savoie has no link with Savagnin blanc. Durbach is home to some plantings of Red Traminer in Germany with potentially more plantings from misidentified Gewürztraminer that may actually be Red Traminer. Not surprisingly the Swiss Alps are home to a Traminer-like grape,
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Châteauneuf-du-Pape AOC


du-Pape-Calcernier" which seems to have been a lighter-style wine than the Châteauneuf-du-Pape of today. They seem to have increased in reputation within France until phylloxera hit in the early 1870s, which was earlier than most other French wine regions were affected. Prior to World War I the bulk of Châteauneuf-du-Pape was sold to Burgundy as "vin de médecine" to be added to Burgundy wine to boost the strength and alcohol levels. In the early 20th century, Châteauneuf-
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Boursin cheese


sold nationally in France. Boursin cheese was first developed in Normandy, and at one time was produced exclusively in Croisy-sur-Eure, France, by the Boursin company. In 1990, the Boursin name was acquired by Unilever, which sold it to Groupe Bel in November 2007 for €400 million. The brand was advertised on television using the slogan: « "Du pain, du vin, du Boursin" » (English: "Some bread, some wine, some Boursin"). This slogan was later
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Straw wine


mats or hung in a well-ventilated space, and the must weight is required to reach at least 27° NM on the Normalizovaný moštomer scale. Straw wine in the Czech Republic is typically made from white grapes that are well-ripened and undamaged. Vin de Paille is the French for 'straw wine', made only in the ripest vintages. Perhaps the best known example is made in the Cotes du Jura (Arbois and sometimes L'Etoile) from a blend of Chardonnay, Savagnin and the red grape Poulsard. Vins
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Charles Finkel


Z.D., Sutter Home, Ficklin, Kenwood, and Fetzer. In 1974 Bon-Vin was acquired by U.S. Tobacco as part of their purchase of American Wine Growers, which included Ste. Michelle. Charles and Rose Ann moved to Seattle, Washington where Finkel was Vice President of Marketing at Château Ste. Michelle, part of the team that built the château in Woodinville, Washington. In 1978 Finkel founded Merchant du Vin, a wine and beer importing company, based in Seattle, Washington. He was the exclusive agent for
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Alsace wine


declassify it all the way down to "Vin de table", which generally means that neither grape varieties, region of origin or vintage may be identified. However, this solution is mostly avoided since "edelzwicker" and "gentil" may be blended from several varieties, i.e. varieties that exceed the AOC rules in the concerned season. There is a legal requirement for bottling Alsace wine in tall bottles commonly called "". In the AOC rules, the bottle type is actually called "vin du Rhin", i.e.,
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Jon Winroth


. While he was appearing in both "Elle" and "Lui", his French colleagues offered all the expected sexually-oriented jokes. In addition to his regular articles in "International Herald Tribune", the "Revue du vin de France" and "Cuisine et Vins de France", he continued to contribute to "La Table et la route" and "Elle International". Also in 1979, Jon Winroth wrote of another memorable tasting, that of a 1799 Lafite-Rothschild in Paris. Another high point
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Les vins skalli


Les Vins Skalli is a wine producer which operates in France and is based in Châteauneuf-du-Pape. In the 1980s, the company, which is exclusively owned by the Skalli family, was a pioneer in French varietal wines. Today, the company sells wine from the Languedoc region, the Rhone Valley region, Provence and Napa Valley all over the world. In the 1920s, Robert-Elie Skalli starts working in wine-making and chooses land in the Oran, Mascara and Aïn Témouchent regions of Algeria to plant
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Odette Kahn


Odette Kahn (1923–1982) was a leading authority on wine and editor of the "La Revue du vin de France" (Review of French wine) and of "Cuisine et Vins de France" (Food and Wines of France). She was a judge at the historic Paris Wine Tasting of 1976. Kahn was outraged at the results of the tasting, unsuccessfully demanded her ballot back, refused later to speak to organizer Steven Spurrier after the event, claimed fraud, and wrote disparagingly about the wine competition. This event
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Château-Chalon AOC


normally in late October. The vineyard soils are composed of limestone marl. The Château-Chalon AOC is dedicated exclusively to the production of "vin jaune" wine. There are other appellations within Jura that are permitted to produce AOC "vin jaune", most notably the Côtes du Jura AOC, but Château-Chalon has specific regulations that are unique to this AOC. To begin with, the grapes must be harvested at brix levels that allow for a potential alcohol content of at least 12% in the finished wine;
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Jean-Baptiste du Plessis d'Argentré


Jean-Baptiste du Plessis d'Argentré (1 November 172024 February 1805) was Bishop of Séez, Normandy, from 17 Sep 1775 until his death. Jean-Baptiste was born in the in Argentré-du-Plessis in Brittany, from where the family took their name, to Pierre, former page of Louis XIV, and Marie-Louise Hindret de Ravenne. He was tutor to the "Enfants de France", the children of the French royal family, and the King's almoner. He was also (commendatory)
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Côtes du Marmandais


Côtes du Marmandais is an "Appellation d'origine contrôlée" (AOC) for wine located in South West France around the commune of Marmande. With its location just southeast of the Entre-Deux-Mers along the banks of the Garonne river, it is a satellite of Bordeaux, but just outside the borders of that region. The region was elevated from "Vin Délimité de Qualité Superieure" (VDQS) to AOC status in 1990. From the Middle Ages to the 19th century, the wines of the Côtes du Marmandais were
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Allemagne-en-Provence


of his cousin André d'Oraison. Marthe d'Oraison was the founder of a convent of Capuchins at Marseille. She took the habit without taking the vows on the death of her husband. She then devoted herself to the poor at the "Hotel Dieu de Paris" where she died in 1637 and was buried in the Cloister of the Capuchins Saint-Honoré. André d'Oraison (a German cousin of Gabrielle du Mas), Marquis d'Oraison, Baron of Allemagne on the death of Gabrielle du Mas de Castellane-Allemagne, married Gabrielle Gianni
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Domaine du Vieux Télégraphe


% Syrah, 15% Mourvèdre, and the remaining 5% consisting of Cinsaut and some white varieties including Grenache Blanc, Clairette, Roussanne and Bourboulenc. The "Grand vin" is the red Vieux Télégraphe, while a second wine is named Vieux Mas des Papes, containing wine from younger vines. In the 2002 vintage no "Grand vin" was released, only a label named Télégramme was produced, which has remained the name of the second wine in some markets. A white wine Vieux Télégraphe is also produced, with
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Corsica wine


wines are composed primarily of Vermentino. This region includes many of Corsica's oldest established wineries that were founded in the 1960s on the island's eastern plains. The Vin de Corse-Coteaux du Cap Corse is located on the northern peninsular tip of the island and produces sweet wines made from Muscat and Aleatico. The wines made from the latter are commonly labeled as "Rappu" wine. The sub-region of Vin de Corse-Calvi is located around the northwestern coastal town of Calvi, located north of Ajaccio. The
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Henri Enjalbert


present-day Bosnia-Herzegovina may have been the last European refuge of the grape vine after the Ice Age. Enjalbert's publications range from studies on Château Latour, Château Haut-Brion and Saint-Émilion, to book titles such as "Les Grands Vins de St-Emilion, Pomerol et Fronsac" (English translation: "Great Bordeaux Wines"), "L'Origine de la Qualité" and "L'histoire de la vigne & du vin" () with his son Bernard. The latter book launched a revised perspective
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Henri Enjalbert


on the Bordeaux Wine Official Classification of 1855, and for which he posthumously received the "Prix littéraire de l'Académie du Vin de Bordeaux" in 1984. While a professor of geography at the "University of Bordeaux", Enjalbert completed his work "Les Grands Vins de St-Emilion, Pomerol et Fronsac" which included an extensive history account of the Pomerol wine region derived from the memoirs of estate owners as well as official reports and the documentations from notaries. On item that was noted was the early presence of Cabernet franc
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Jacquesson


decline followed the death of Adolphe Jacquesson, inventor of the muselet, when the descendants ceased to continue the family business, and ownership changed hands over several decades, until in 1974 when it was bought by Jean Chiquet. Today it is directed with brothers Jean-Hervé and Laurent Chiquet. Methods have changed to be organic, fermentation in oak is increased, new vineyards are bought in, but production still is limited to around 350,000 bottles per year. "Revue du Vin de France" in "Les Meilleurs Vin de France
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Vin jaune


a sauce component. Another common pairing is the local Comté cheese that is produced in the Franche-Comté region. A festival called "La Percée du Vin Jaune" (Opening of the Yellow Wine) is held in the last week of January or the first week of February each year to celebrate release of the newly released vintage, which due to the legal requirements for aging will be the one harvested in the autumn seven years earlier. Recent events, including tasting sessions, have attracted over 30,000 visitors. This event takes
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Loire


Bourgogne grape. Spread out across the Loire Valley are 87 appellation under the AOC, VDQS and Vin de Pays systems. There are two generic designation that can be used across the whole of the Loire Valley. The "Crémant de Loire" which refers to any sparkling wine made according to the traditional method of Champagne. The "Vin de Pays du Jardin de la France" refers to any varietally labelled wine, such as Chardonnay, that is produced in the region outside of an AOC designation. The area includes 87 appellations
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Michel Dovaz


Michel Dovaz (born August 14, 1928 in Geneva, Switzerland) is a Swiss wine critic and food writer. He started his career as a journalist in Paris, France and later taught wine courses at the Academie du Vin in Paris when he served as a judge at the Paris Wine Tasting of 1976. He subsequently wrote several books on French wine as well as the chapter on Champagne for the "Guide Hachette des Vins". Less well known is the fact, that Dovaz was the owner of a collection of 50
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Loire Valley (wine)


of the Melon de Bourgogne grape. Spread out across the Loire Valley are 87 appellation under the AOC, VDQS and Vin de Pays systems. There are two generic designations that can be used across the whole of the Loire Valley. The "Crémant de Loire" which refers to any sparkling wine made according to the traditional method of Champagne. The "Vin de Pays du Jardin de la France" refers to any varietally labeled wine, such as Chardonnay, that is produced in the region outside of an AOC designation. Sauvignon
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Nicolas Joly


called "Le Vin du ciel à la terre" and has been through several editions. In its English adaptation for the North American market, it was given the title "Wine From Sky To Earth". His book for wine consumers is called "Le Vin, la Vigne et la Biodynamie" and was adapted as "What is Biodynamic wine ?" in its 2007 UK edition and as "Biodynamic Wine Demystified" in its 2008 US edition. His books have also been published in Czech, German, Hungarian, Italian
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Beaujolais nouveau


12:01 a.m. local time. Beaujolais had always made a "vin de l'année" to celebrate the end of the harvest, but until World War II it was only for local consumption. In fact, once the Beaujolais AOC was established in 1937, AOC rules meant that Beaujolais wine could only be officially sold after 15 December in the year of harvest. These rules were relaxed on 13 November 1951, and the Union Interprofessionnelle des Vins du Beaujolais (UIVB) formally set 15 November as the release date for what would henceforth be
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Judgment of Paris (wine)


MacQuitty, Jasper Morris MW, Jancis Robinson OBE MW and Brian St. Pierre. The results showed that additional panels of experts again preferred the California wines over their French competitors. Three of the Bordeaux wines in the competition were from the 1970 vintage, identified by the Conseil Interprofessionel du Vin de Bordeaux as among the four best vintages in the past 45 years or more. The fourth Bordeaux was a 1971, described by the Conseil as "very good". Another official French authority, the Office Interprofessionnel des Vins, rates the
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Languedoc-Roussillon wine


, and Vin de Pays du Gard. Winemakers such as Guy Anderson, Thierry Boudinaud and E. & J. Gallo Winery capitalized on this new horizon, producing wines like Fat Bastard and Red Bicyclette. "Vins Doux Naturels" are "naturally sweet" wines that have been fortified with brandy to stop fermentation, leaving residual sugar to add sweetness to the wine. The majority of Languedoc sweet white wines are made with a variety of Muscat grapes. The red fortified wines of the Banyuls are made from Grenache grapes, normally have an
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Coastal radio station VIN Geraldton


three days' time, while VIC Cooktown and VIE Esperance would commence the following week. Two days after commencement of the station, it was operating commercially, with an underwhelming volume of traffic. Local A. H. du Boulay had the honour of lodging the first commercial radiogram and was rewarded two hours later with a reply from the RMS Malwa. An increase in business volume was foreshadowed following enactment of the Navigation Act. It was noted that VIN appeared to be able to receive ships south of VIP somewhat better than VIP itself.
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Christian Delpeuch


Christian Delpeuch is president emeritus of the French Conseil Interprofessionel du Vin de Bordeaux (CIVB). He won support for Plan Bordeaux, an effort to save the wine industry of Bordeaux. The plan calls for growers to reduce yields, decrease total area of vineyards, divert excess wine into production of ethanol fuels and cleaning solutions, reclassify lesser vineyards as "vin de pays", and start putting varietal names on wine labels. The wine industry of Bordeaux has been facing continuing and severe economic problems. A wine glut led to
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Gran Hotel (Costa Rica)


of the Choice International and Reals Hotels & Resorts chain resulting in renaming the hotel. The hotel name was changed to The Gran Hotel Costa Rica Ascend Collection and announced on December 14 through a press release. Effective Sep 10 2018 it will be part of the Hilton Curio Collection. http://curiocollection3.hilton.com/en/hotels/costa-rica/gran-hotel-costa-rica-curio-collection-by-hilton-SJOCUQQ/index.html Guest Rooms The Gran Hotel consists of five room packages. These include: Standard Room, Superior Room, Deluxe Room, Master Suite and J.F.K. (John F. Kennedy) Presidential Suite. Each room is accommodated with air conditioner except the Standard Rooms
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John Soane


, Père Lachaise Cemetery, Étienne-Louis Boullée's chapel at Sainte-Roche, the Arc de Triomphe, Vincennes and the Château de Vincennes, Sèvres, Saint-Cloud, Arcueil with its ancient Roman aqueduct, Basilica of St Denis, Chamber of Deputies of France, Saint-Étienne-du-Mont, Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel, Musée du Louvre, Luxembourg Palace, Palace of Versailles with the Grand Trianon and Petit Trianon with its Hameau de la reine, Halle aux blés, Halle aux vins, Jardin des
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Château La Tour du Pin Figeac (Giraud-Bélivier)


Château Cheval Blanc in 2006, who renamed it and later absorbed it, so the Giraud property is now the only Château La Tour du Pin Figeac. The estate was rated "Grand Cru Classé" in the original Classification of Saint-Émilion wine, but lost this status in 2006, only to have the verdict reversed in 2008. Château La Tour du Pin Figeac was excluded from the 2012 classification, and its appeal failed. The vineyards extend to . The "Grand vin" is typically a blend of 75% Merlot
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Sancerre (wine)


for anywhere from 1/5 to 1/6 of annual production depending on the vintage. The yields of Sancerre blanc are limited to a maximum of 60 hectoliters per hectare while Sancerre rouge and rose are restricted to maximum yields of 55 hl/ha. The minimum alcohol content of Sancerre blanc is 10.5% alcohol per volume while Sancerre rouge and rosé must maintain a minimum alcohol level of 10%. Wines made outside these AOC regulations must be declassified from AOC wines to "vin de pays" table wine such as Vin de Pays du Jardin
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Len de l'El


that may be blended with Len de l'El include Sémillon, Muscadelle and Ondenc. The grape can also be found in the experimental wines of several "vin de pays", most notably the major VDP of Southwest France Vin de Pays du Comté Tolosan where it is often blended with Muscadelle, Petit Manseng, Muscat blanc, Mauzac and Sauvignon blanc. Len de l'El is highly prone to various grape diseases, particularly the grape rots that can afflict vineyards in the moist maritime climate of Southwest France. Therefore, growers tend to limit
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Corsica wine


primarily the northern peninsular tip and overlaps with the Vin de Corse Coteaux du Cap Corse AOC as well as five communes that produces wines in the Patrimonio AOC. The sweet dessert wine from the Cap Corse region is produced in the vin doux naturel style and is composed entirely of Muscat Blanc à Petits Grains. The average elevation of vineyards in Corsica is above sea levels where they are susceptible to strong winds. Vines were traditionally pruned to a goblet style, but modern viticultural practice and mechanical harvesting have encouraged more widespread use of single
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Eastwood's long-tailed seps


Eastwood's longtailed seps or Eastwood's whip lizard (Tetradactylus eastwoodae) was a species of lizard in the family Cordylidae. The species was endemic to South Africa. Its natural habitat was subtropical or tropical high-altitude grassland. It became extinct due to habitat loss. The specific name, "eastwoodae", is in honor of Miss A. Eastwood who collected the holotype. The type locality for "T. eastwoodae" is the Haenertzberg area near Woodbush in the Letaba district approximately 5 km West of where the Magoebaskloof hotel now is
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