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Grands Crus 2017 Bordeaux Wine

March 22, 2020 Leave a Comment

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Union des Grands Crus de Bordeaux is a group of 134 top wine-producing Châteaux from a number of Bordeaux’s most prized appellations. The group sponsors a number of wine tastings that provide an opportunity to sample wines from the region’s newly released vintages. The January 2020 San Francisco Event focused on 2017 and 2018 wines […]

Filed Under: Bordeaux, Destinations, Europe, Featured-City, France, Wine Events, Wine Region, Wine/Wineries Tagged With: Appellation Pomerol, Botrytis, Chateau Brane-Cantenac, Chateau Coutet, Chateau Criozet-Bages, Chateau Dauzac, Chateau de Chantegrive, Chateau Doisy Daene, Chateau d’Yquen, Chateau Ferrande, Chateau Giscours, Chateau Grand-Puy Ducasse, Chateau Gruaud Larose, Chateau Guiraud, Chateau Haut-Bages Liberal, Chateau Kirwan, Chateau Lafaurie-Peyraguey, Chateau Lafron-Rochet, Chateau Lascombes, Chateau Leoville Poyferre, Chateau Les Carmes Haut-Brion, Château Marquis de Terme, Chateau Mouton Rothschild, Chateau Ormes De Pez, Chateau Pichon Baron, Chateau Prieure-Lichine, Chateau Smith Haut Lafitte, Chateaus Carbonnieux, Domaine de Chevalier, Haut-Medoc, Haut-Peyraguey, Left Bank, Malartic-Lagraviere, Margaux, Pauillac, Right Bank, Saint Estephe, Saint-Julien

Our favorite Paris Restaurants

August 30, 2021 Leave a Comment

We are foodies. No doubt about it. We love exploring new places when we travel and revisit old favorites. This blog compiles all of our Paris restaurant reviews in one spot. 1st Arrondissement L’Escargot Montorgueil (38 Rue Montorgueil) 2019: This Marais neighborhood spot specializes in, you guessed it, escargot. We were in the mood for […]

Filed Under: Destinations, Dining, Europe, Featured-City, France, Paris, Restaurants, Travel

Paris Museums

January 17, 2020 Leave a Comment

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Paris France is one of those places to which we frequently return. In fact, we have spent more time here than in any other non-U.S. city. This time we only had 3 days in reacquaint ourselves with some of our favorite museums. Rather than repeat or rephrase all that we have written before, this post […]

Filed Under: Activities, Destinations, Europe, Featured-City, France, Museums, Paris, Travel Tagged With: Caillebotte, Cezanne, Degas, Felix Feneon, George Seurat, L’Orangerie, Marmottan Museum, Matisse, Monet, Musee d’Orsay, Paul Serusier, Piet Mondrian, Pissarro, Pointalists, Pompidou Center, Renoir, Signac, Yan-Pei Ming

Biking through Cote de Beaune

January 31, 2020 Leave a Comment

Beaune Appelation Map

The main purpose of our trip to Beaune France was to visit the Cote de Beaune Burgundy wine region. We spent one day in the area on bikes: electric bikes to be precise. This was our first time on electric bikes. We rented them to explore about half of the 22 km “Voie des Vignes” […]

Filed Under: Beaune, Destination Type, Destinations, Europe, Featured-City, France, Travel, Wine Region, Wine/Wineries Tagged With: Chassagne-Montrachet, Domaine Guillaume Baduel, Meursault, Moillard-Grivot, Olivier Leflaive, Pommard, Puligny Montrachet, Voie des Vignes, Volnay

Beaune France

December 29, 2019 Leave a Comment

Beaune Town Hall or Hotel de Ville

What’s not to love about visiting France’s Burgundy Region? We love its foods, its wines and its atmosphere. We were last there 7 years ago and it was time to get back. Beaune France is the largest city that is specifically in the Burgundy Wine Region. It is also one of our favorite small French […]

Filed Under: Activities, Beaune, Bordeaux, Destination Type, Dining, Featured-City, Hotels, Hotels, Museums, Restaurants, Travel, Wine Region, Wine/Wineries Tagged With: Cote de Beaune, Cote de Nuits, Hotel Abbaye de Maizieres, Musee du Vin de Bourgogne, Voie des Vignes

Summing up our Paris Adventure

December 30, 2019 Leave a Comment

It’s time to say au revoir to our almost 4 weeks of living in Paris. But we will be back. With so many places and so many blogs on Paris, we decided to create this blog that points to the neighborhoods, museums and restaurants that we talk about: Neighborhoods Marais District Île de la Cité […]

Filed Under: Destinations, Europe, Featured-Trips, Food & Wine, France, Paris, Restaurants, Travel

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