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The Wine List
Posted on September 3, 2022
Meanwhile, back in Aubeterre-sur-Dronne, home to the subterranean church as featured n recent posts, on the main street there is a now closed down shop that obviously used to sell some very upmarket wines.
For example, a bottle of that 1967 Chateau La Mission Haut-Brion would nowadays set you back close to 400 dollars or euros. Cooking wine it ain’t.
Vendange Time
Posted on September 9, 2021
The vendange (vintage) is the annual wine harvest, when the grapes are picked from the vines. It’s usually done around late September or early October, the exact time depending on meteorological vagaries.
The 2021 vintage is probably going to be a shocker because of the awful weather we’ve had this year. However, this image, from a chateau in the Bordeaux region, harks back to a more promising time.
Glass of wine, anyone?
Posted on November 9, 2018
Shine a light through a glass of red wine and some of the effects can be quite pleasing.
(Same goes for drinkng it.)
Bottles
Posted on March 2, 2018
Cee’s challenge this week is to post an image of something – anything – that contains a double letter.
I spotted these old wine bottles standing on the floor next to a bed in the sleeping quarters at the restored Abbaye de la Reau.
Somehow, the post-processing produced an effect like a still life painting, which I find attractive.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Order
Posted on June 8, 2017
In the cellars beneath Épernay, bottles of champagne lie maturing in racks.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Shadow
Posted on February 9, 2017
Shine a light through a glass of red wine onto a white tablecloth and this is what you get:
Under pressure
Posted on October 7, 2016
As part of the wine-making process, in Bordeaux as elsewhere, the young wine has to be drawn out of the big stainless steel tanks into smaller containers under the force of gravity. Given how large the tanks are, it’s not surprising that it comes out at high pressure. That’s what you call letting it breathe.
And if you zoom in closely enough, it becomes almost abstract:
Shouldn’t that be ‘vin’?
Posted on May 9, 2016
As one of France’s leading utility companies, EDF (Électricité de France) supplies something without which modern civilised life would be quite impossible.
As well as electricity.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Half and Half
Posted on July 18, 2015
Against the background of a clear blue sky, rows of vines run up to the horizon near the village of Äy, in the Champagne region of France.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Half and Half
Bottle Bank
Posted on May 14, 2015
A bit of a stretch maybe, but there is definitely liquid in these bottles: wine from the St. Emilion area of Bordeaux.
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