Bonjour,
I hope that you simply and yours are effectively.
I’m gadding about once more this week and the publication is coming to you from beautiful La Rochelle, a 1000-year-old metropolis on the Atlantic Coast with sturdy hyperlinks to America – New Rochelle in New York was based by Huguenots from La Rochelle. I’ve simply arrived right here from Cognac the place I’ve been exploring the charming city, visiting Cognac makers and discovering out about much less well-known issues to do there! In fact, I’ll be sharing all the things with you in a future subject of The Good Life France Journal which is free to learn (hyperlink beneath), and it’s additionally free to subscribe to.
Include me as I journey through Instagram – subsequent week, I’m off once more, this time to Strasbourg, Colmar and the little villages of Alsace to find a few of the most magical Christmas markets, Hansel and Gretel type villages, and lip-smacking grub!
It’s a reasonably quiet time in France from now till the tip of the month. In November to this point we’ve had two nationwide holidays and Beaujolais Nouveau day, and now we’re on the countdown to the festive season. I slightly like the entire razzmatazz of Beaujolais Nouveau, the wine will not be grand cru, but it surely’s normally okay, although completely nothing like the conventional wines of Beaujolais that are among the many finest I’ve ever tasted. Should you learn the newspapers right here, you’d in all probability assume that each one French folks detest the wine constituted of grapes harvested in September and able to drink in November. Critics insist it’s nothing greater than a advertising and marketing operation, a crafty ploy to rid canny wine makers of undrinkable wine in giant portions. Wine snobs declare they might slightly down a bucket of cat wee.
And but wine bars and cafés throughout France sport posters asserting Le Beaujolais Nouveau est arrivé which suggests somebody should be ingesting it and there aren’t sufficient international guests or expats round to place away that a lot. It’s mainly a practice and has been for greater than 50 years, for producers of this vin primeur, younger wine, to race shares to Paris and onto the cabinets of supermarkets and bars throughout France and all over the world (greater than half the 25 million bottles produced head to the USA and Japan) for the third Thursday of November. And I feel it’s extra in regards to the legend of Beaujolais Nouveau Day than the style, which my neighbour Jean-Claude describes as “easy with no depth, no complexity” although he by no means says non once I provide him a glass!
Properly – I’m off to take a final wander around the port of La Rochelle earlier than I head house, and I’ll be again subsequent week with a deal with for everybody!
Bon weekend and bisous from La Rochelle,
Janine
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Janine Marsh is Writer of My Good Life in France: In Pursuit of the Rural Dream, My 4 Seasons in France: A Yr of the Good Life and Toujours la France: Dwelling the Dream in Rural France all obtainable as e-book, print & audio, on Amazon all over the place & all good bookshops on-line. Her newest ebook The right way to be French – is a celebration of the French way of life and artwork de vivre.
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