Category Archives: FRANCE

I See Motown, I See France; I Just Bought ‘The Wedding Dance’

Posted on June 3, 2013 by intoxreport

Although Detroit was founded as a New France fur trading post, the French themselves left us little by way of culture, and for that, we should probably be grateful.  But they did leave us a bunch of street names.  ‘Detroit’, … Continue reading →

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Le Beaujolais Oldveau Est Arrivé

Posted on March 21, 2013 by intoxreport

I happen to like Beaujolais Nouveau. And I often get called a panty-waisted momma’s boy eunuch, without taste, testosterone or a grasp of life’s finer pleasures. Not because I like Beaujolais Nouveau, of course, but because I also like that … Continue reading →

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Master-Level Wine Webinar? We’ll Burn That Bridge When We Come To It

Posted on March 6, 2013 by intoxreport

I just received a ‘last call’ e-card from the French saying ‘Wish you were here! —and for what you will pay for the Sud de France Master-Level Webinar Program, you might as well be.’ The deal is this: For a … Continue reading →

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Celebrity Wine Is Truly The Pitts

Posted on February 18, 2013 by intoxreport

Truth be told, my Intoxicology Report editors don’t like me—not one little bit.  They don’t like my literary style, my superiority complex or my cute Lucy Ball poodle do—in short, they don’t like the cut of my jib.  They are … Continue reading →

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Man To Man, The Best Sparkling Wine For Valentine’s Day?

Posted on February 13, 2013 by intoxreport

Biagio Cru & Estate Wines, a vegan-friendly wine distributor based in  Roslyn Heights, NY, has announced the release of Égalité—the first wine ever created to support equal rights for words whose first and last letters both contain an accent aigu. … Continue reading →

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Veni, Midi, Vici: ‘I Came, I Drank Malbec, No Concord’

Posted on January 12, 2013 by intoxreport

If you have to use ‘Wine X’ magazine as a reference for a column, chances are the inmates have taken over the asylum. Although I do get a kick out of the fact that said publication, once purporting to target … Continue reading →

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Bordeaux Without The Bloodshed

Posted on December 11, 2012 by intoxreport

From time to time, I mock the French for some of their inexplicable cultural anomalies, such as eating bugs you can buy poison at English Gardens to kill and animals on which you can bet at Churchill Downs; for having … Continue reading →

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St. Émilion Classification 2012: Vive la Meticulous, Compulsive, Anal-Retentive France

Posted on September 10, 2012 by intoxreport

I adore French cuisine. I am enamored of French history.  I love the sensuous roll of la langue française across the tongue—especially when it is accompanied by the crisp silk of a Cave des Vignerons de Buxy Chablis.  I dig … Continue reading →

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Bœuf Bourguignon, Languedoc-Roussillon-Style—On The Hoof

Posted on July 18, 2012 by intoxreport

Not saying that they are all simply crackers pastoral folk in Languedoc-Roussillon, that hillbilly heaven bucolic land in the south of France, but here is their recipe for Bœuf Bourguignon, one of the most beloved classical dishes of French culinary … Continue reading →

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Louis Roederer Champagne: A Fifth For The Fourth

Posted on July 1, 2012 by intoxreport

Every year, somebody asks me to recommend a few wines with which to celebrate Independence Day, and every year my response is the same: E Pluribus Unum Now, here’s a question for you, Johnny Seventh Grade American History Scholar: You’ve … Continue reading →

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