I adore French food and drink - A Maconnais Chardonnay.

If you're looking for fine French food and wine, consider the well known Burgundy area in eastern France. Though its reasonably rare, you may even find a bargain, and I'm hoping that youll have fun on this fact-filled wine education tour in which we review a local white wine based mostly on the Aligote grape.

Partisans, and they are many claim that Burgundy is really the #1 or number 2 wine-producing area in France, if not around the planet. The wine reviewed below comes from somewhere in Burgundy, whose wine production is nearly ninety percent white, pretty much exclusively Chardonnay. As well as Burgundy Aligot is grown in Bulgaria, a not a very-well known wine producer but one that is sometimes generates bargains. The best Aligot wines are alleged to come from the town of Bouzeron and its environs, found in the Cte Chalonnaise region of Burgundy. To the best of our information the reviewed wine is pure Aligot and does not come from the Bouzeron area of Burgundy. If you are visiting Burgundy, and you actually should, make efforts to stop by the Cte dOr town of Chteauneuf about 20 5 miles ( 40 kilometers ) southwest of Dijon in northern Burgundy. Its focus is the Chteau ( Castle ) built in 1132 and occupied by the same family for 9 generations till 1456 when Cathrine of Chteauneuf was burnt to death, it is announced that she poisoned her 2nd man, Jacques dHaussonville. With the development of the Burgundy Canal its destiny was sealed you might say. Be certain to see the castles medieval tapestries and its reflection in the canal. If you are searching for fine French food and drink, consider the Mconnais area of the Burgundy area in eastern France. You will find a bargain, and I'm hoping that youll have fun on this fact-filled wine education tour in which we review a local white Chardonnay. Partisans, and they are many claim that Burgundy is actually the number 1 or number 2 wine-producing area in France, if not on the planet. The wine reviewed below comes from the Mconnais area of southern Burgundy, whose wine production is nearly 90% white, pretty much exclusively Chardonnay.

The site contains a horse-breeding center set up by Napoleon using stone from the abbey. Youll also wish to see the Muse Ochier, a Romanesque lapidary museum. The first name refers to Augustus Caesar who modestly described it as "the sister and rival of Rome itself. Tasting Note Pale straw color, Delicate scents of mineral,citrus, anjou pear and green apple, Dry, light bodied, with clean apple / lemon flavours, crisp astringency on finish. I doused on lots of grated Parmesan Cheese. As I continued the meal I noticed that this wine isn't puny. The final meal was a disappointing "Louisiana" style home grilled chicken sausage. Both the wine and the beef were rather tasteless, but when I added some extremely robust mustard the wines fruit perked up a bit. Burgundy in france