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The Musée du Vin’s Champagne Scene

January 21, 2015 – 7:27 am

Many delegates to the 7th International Wine Tourism Conference will arrive in France by flying into one of its airports. While in Paris, many are drawn to the Eiffel Tower. Just across the river from the Eiffel Tower and a short walk to 5, square Charles Dickens street, wine enthusiasts can visit the Musée du […]

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An Influence of a Champagne Family on a North American Winery

January 15, 2015 – 11:58 am

This year’s International Wine Tourism Conference takes place in Reims in the Champagne wine region of France. Our thoughts begin to explore this region and the people that make champagne. In our travels to wineries and vineyards in Canada and the United States, we met many winemakers and vineyardists that are from France. Many have […]

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Champagne Day Experiment and Food Pairing

October 24, 2014 – 5:47 pm

Today is #ChampagneDay, a day dedicated to the producers and champagne from the Champagne wine region of France. We decided to celebrate the day with a Champagne Jean-Claude Mouzon Brut. Earlier I wrote a blog about different wine glasses for sparkling wines. What is better, a flute, white wine glass or a coupe. As I […]

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Champagne Day, October 24, 2014

October 23, 2014 – 9:43 am

Friday, October 24th is Champagne Day. This is the fifth annual day that wine enthusiasts world-wide will open a bottle of champagne and enjoy with their food. The day is dedicated solely to champagne from the Champagne region in France. Cava, prosecco and sparkling wines do not count. Consumers need to buy the real champagne […]

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Returning Home from Cava to Champagne

October 15, 2014 – 11:53 am

Flying Air France from CDG to DTW, while sipping Champagne Pannier

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Websites for Champagne and the International Wine Tourism Conference

July 15, 2014 – 1:01 am

The Bureau du Champagne USA website provides an immense amount of information about Champagne. The data includes suggestions on the appropriate stemware, how to open a Champagne bottle, the region’s vineyards and the Champagnes. It will take a good amount of time to peruse everything available on the website. The Champagne Bureau website could be […]

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Geff Howell, Cellar Master at Gilbert Cellars

July 3, 2013 – 2:18 pm

While we are on tour of wineries and vineyards in France with a tour led by Theresa Beaver of Washington State University, we will spotlight the wine journeys of our fellow travelers. Today we lead with Geff Howell. Geff’s wine journey began as a result of working in the restaurant industry. He started working in […]

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WSU Group Meets in Paris

July 1, 2013 – 1:33 am

Last night we met others members of the WSU winery tour who will travel to Champagne, Bordeaux and Burgundy.

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Watch A Winemaker Disgorge a Bottle of Sparkling Wine by Hand

June 24, 2013 – 8:45 am

On a recent visit to Quebec, we visited Le Cep d’Argent where we were very fortunate to have an opportunity to talk with François Scieur the winemaker and master of sparkling wines. François demonstrated disgorgement of a bottle of sparkling wine by hand.

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Unique Opportunity to Tour Three Wine Regions in France

April 3, 2013 – 8:41 am

When we saw the email from Theresa Beaver, Viticulture and Enology Certificate Coordinator at Washington State University about a tour to France, we immediately responded. Theresa has been organizing tours to the world’s wine regions since 2010 when a group traveled to New Zealand for two weeks. Kathy and I were on that trip and […]

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