LA CAMARGUE SAUVAGE
When you’ve tired of charming hilltop villages in the Luberon and swanky restaurants along the French [...]
The Modern Trobadors
PROVENCE ROSÉ: TASTING AND TRAVEL NOTES FROM “PROVENCE IN THE CITY 2014”
Provence—today, the very word conjures up images of sipping rosé: on the beaches of the Côte d’Azur, by the pool of a handsome mas nestled into the garrigue-covered hills in the Luberon, in outdoor cafés along Cours Mirabeau in Aix-en-Provence, with bouillabaisse in Marseille’s vieux port, and, for some folks, in yachts docked at St. Tropez. Mon dieu, rosé was born in Provence and, well, bred there [...]
MARTIGUES—THE VENICE OF PROVENCE—IS A PICTURESQUE STOP FOR LUNCH & A STROLL
Martigues was a magnet for painters in the 19th- and early 20th-century. Painters from the schools of French [...]
ROUSSILLON: BRING YOUR CAMERA, PAINTBRUSHES, AND BASKET FOR THE MARKET
Roussillon is designated as one of “Les Plus Beaux Villages de France,” and with good reason. Its [...]
SACHA LICHINE TALKS ABOUT MAKING ROSÉ IN PROVENCE AND WE TASTE HIS WINES…including the just released 2013 Whispering Angel
Sacha Lichine, the man behind the wine at Château d’Esclans, was in his old stomping grounds this week. In Boston for the city’s Wine Expo, I caught up with him at the Seaport Hotel where he was hosting a seminar on—guess what—the four tiers of luscious rosé [...]
AUPS TRUFFLE FESTIVAL: MEET THE BEST TRUFFLE DOG AND THE CUTEST TRUFFLE PIG
I am immensely grateful to Pamela J. O’Neill for her reporting and photographs of this event. Aups, the [...]
CORSICAN WINE: INFLUENCED BY PROVENCE AND ITALY, BUT DISTINCTLY ITS OWN
Corsica is a gorgeous French island just 100 miles (170 km) off the southeast coast of Provence and a short flight (45 minutes) from Marseille. Its main draw has long been its striking beaches--some 200 of them totaling over 600 miles of the island's coastline--but did [...]
TEN GENDARMES IN THE MARKET OF A TINY VILLAGE IN PROVENCE IN JANUARY? MAIS OUI, IT’S TRUFFLE SEASON!
Every Thursday morning from mid-November through February, truffle vendors file into Aups for the region’s [...]
NORTH AFRICAN COUSCOUS, PROVENCE ROSÉ, AND RHONE RED: A COSMOPOLITAN COMBINATION THAT WARMS BOTH BODY AND SOUL
Provence is a melting pot of immigrants and nowhere is this more apparent than in Marseille where residents [...]
THE KERFUFFLE ABOUT SAYING ‘BON APPÉTIT’
At some point, midway through the procession of holiday dinners at our home this year, the subject of ‘bon [...]
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