2012年4月28日土曜日

Tenoma's wine seminar - 1

Great thanks to all who attended the 1rst seminar & special thanks to Tenoma for hosting the wine seminar.
 
For this first session, we had a quick tour in the french vineyards.
We visited producers and tasted their wines.
We reviewed french wine history, from ancient greecs and romans to nowadays.
We learned about monks, kings, emperors, people and revolutions, grands crus and popular wines, wine business, mondovino...
 
We tasted:
- Pomerol Château Belle Brise 2002
- Gevrey-Chambertin 1er Cru Bel Air 2004 Pierre Naigeon
- Meursault Narvaux 2008 Antoine Petitprez ULIZ
- Saint Romain 2008 Antoine Petitprez.
 
Kind regards to all. Yoko & Vincent.

2012年4月23日月曜日

Wines just arrived!

This morning, fresh temperature, no rain, bottles seem in good shape... So far so good. Cellar is extra full.

2012年4月17日火曜日

Dimanche après-midi en terrasse

... avec les amis, l'accordéon, le bon vin et les apéros... même le beau temps était de la partie!
 
Merci à tous pour ce moment & pour les merveilleuses photos sur FB (Merci Lawrence). Grand merci au Chef Ishida pour son accueil et ses délicieux amuse-gueules...
 
Salutations à tous & au plaisir!
Yoko & Vincent.

2012年4月9日月曜日

Sakura in Kokura - Sun 8 April

Sharing food and wines with friends under the cherry trees in blossom. Chef Oishi from Shinkukan restauraut in Kokura prepared an awsome turtle soup. We drunk white wine with, in particular Uliz's Saint Romain 2008 tastes really fine by now with very particular & subtle minerality. We had no proper glasses... but that did not matter.