Posts Tagged ‘Charles Rousseau’
CHALLENGE BURGUNDY
Posted by Frank Ward on March 20, 2019
Posted in Burgundy | Tagged: Andrew Jefford, Burgundy, Côte d'Or, Charles Rousseau, Decanter, Duncan Richford, Ernest Hemingway, Fordwich Arms | Leave a Comment »
Memories of Charles Rousseau
Posted by Frank Ward on June 27, 2016
June 2016. I felt a real pang when I heard of the recent death of Charles Rousseau, of Domaine Armand Rousseau, at the age of 93. He was not just a great vigneron and wine-maker, he was also a man of exceptional warmth and humanity. I’d known him for more than 35 years. When I first met Charles Rousseau in the early 1980s, he gave me a splendid tasting of the Domaine’s wines (in the underrated 1980 vintage – excellent in the Côte de Nuits as well as in the Rhône). [….]
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More Writers on Wine : Tolstoy, Strindberg, Hemingway
Posted by Frank Ward on August 16, 2013
August 2013. Hugh Johnson, our foremost wine writer (and, indeed, one of the English language’s finest stylists), suggests that wine may have originated in the Caucasus – southern Russia – some 6000 years B.C. Close to 8000 years later the world’s greatest novelist, Leo Tolstoy, describes harvest time in a Cossack community in the region of the Terek River, in that part of the Caucasus close to Chechnya. Picking had started as early as August….
Posted in Oenophilia | Tagged: A Moveable Feast, Among French Peasants, August Strindberg, Caucasus, chambertin, Charles Rousseau, chikhir, Ernest Hemingway, Hugh Johnson, Oenophilia, oysters, The Cossacks, Tolstoy | Leave a Comment »