Showing posts with label Chardonnay. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chardonnay. Show all posts

Sunday, 18 September 2022

South African Chardonnay

My father bought recently a Chardonnay and sent me the picture of the bottle. Why send me a picture of a wine, you may ask? Well, because it is a South African wine and my father-in-law (aka "daddad") is South African, so my dad thought about his opposite number, so to speak, in my wife's family. When I told my in-laws that my parents drank a South African Chardonnay, my father-in-law said: "Well of course, South Africa makes the best wines, because many Huguenots settled there and they used French vines on fertile African soil." Did I mention that my wife's father is a proud South African? Apparently, he is patriotic even when it comes to wine, even if he barely drinks any himself. In any case, I had a quick lecture on why South African wines are the best: French vines and French know-how, best soil, ideal weather and temperatures. I'm sure many would beg to differ, but there you go.

Saturday, 30 April 2022

Qui aime le chardonnay?

Des fois, je bois du vin plutôt que de la bière. Assez rarement, mais des fois. Je suis plus amateur de vin rouge, cela dit j'en bois de moins en moins, car il me fait éternuer. Alors je dois me rabattre sur le vin blanc, qui n'a jamais été mon fort. Au moins, je peux partager avec ma femme, qui aime le blanc (en très, très petite quantité), mais pas le rouge. (Elle aime la couleur du rosé, rarement son goût, ce qui la désole à chaque fois, mais c'est une autre histoire). Cela dit, grâce à mon magasin local tenu par un Français, j'ai la chance d'avoir une sélection de vins blancs fort honorables, en plus d'avoir les bons conseils pour les choisir. Et donc je me suis rendu compte, à ma grande surprise, que j'aime de plus en plus le chardonnay. Ce qui ne finit pas de m'étonner. Enfin bref, qui d'autre ici aime le chardonnay? Si c'est le cas, veuillez me donner des suggestions dans les commentaires.

Friday, 4 May 2012

Friday treats

Okay, so after last week's disappointment, I had decided to change slightly my sandwich lunch. I had a baguette, with Coca Cola and cashew nuts. But I had chicken instead of smoked salmon. chicken, lettuce, tomatoes and real mayonnaise on top. Simple, but delicious. Then before I hit home, I stopped at the pub local Irish pub, where I had a pint of  Bateman's Spring Goddess. Delicious, even though it didn't feel much like spring today. And for supper, I had pasta (linguine pesto, I was too lazy to do anything else) and a glass of the Chardonnay I had won last Tuesday. I earned this one, after a hard, exhausting but fruitful month. So I had my treats today. Maybe not the ones I have been dreaming about (these days that would be a meal at L'Express, don't ask me why) but enjoyable ones nevertheless.

Tuesday, 1 May 2012

May treats

Today is the first of May. And strangely enough, the weather seems to have acknowledged it: it suddenly turned much warmer and much sunnier. It is a nice change from the weather we had recently. And to celebrate the first of the month, the bosses in my work place decided to order a breakfast this morning. It was more of a brunch as we had it way past 10 o'clock. They ordered it from the sandwich shop where I get my Friday treats. It seems that I cannot escape it. I had sausages baguette sandwiches and eggs baguette sandwiches. I nearly choked at first, I think I am not used to such rich food in the middle of the week, especially not in the middle of the morning. But it was delicious. Simple, excessive, but delicious. it certainly energised me. Then later I won a bottle of Chardonnay. White wine is not my favourite, but I like Chardonnay more than the other white wines. So these were all welcome and unexpected treats.

Wednesday, 25 April 2012

Un compromis entre la bière et le vin?

Je suis plus bière que vin, en général. Je bois du vin avec le repas mais rarement seul. Et encore, pas à tous les repas: avec de la saucisse, c'est de la bière, avec la plupart des mets typiquement anglais aussi. je bois du vin rouge avec la viande rouge, voire même avec le poisson, parce que je suis philistin, mais aussi parce que je préfère en général le vin rouge, même s'il me donne mal à la tête. À l'apéritif, je bois de la bière depuis longtemps. Or, j'ai récemment lu un article dans Cyberpresse sur une bière au Chardonnay brassée par la microbrasserie La Barberie. Je connais peu les produits de cette microbrasserie, je crois en avoir bu quelques uns. Je suis moins amateur de bière forte, mais celle-ci m'intrigue. Les maux de tête m'ont forcé à boire plus de vin blanc, le Chardonnay en est une variété que j'aime plus que les autres, la bière est parfaite pour l'apéritif, alors je songe sérieusement à essayer cette bizarrerie la prochaine fois que je retourne au Québec.