Archive for the ‘Breton’ Category

October Newsletter: Mold, The Guardian of Burgundy, New Domaines

The October Newsletter is now available. Click here to download the pdf. Highlights from this month’s newsletter… FOUR DECADES OF CATHERINE & PIERRE BRETON > by Dixon Brooke © Catherine & Pierre Breton The Bretons are quite a couple. Let’s start with the fact that their last name, Breton, is literally a synonym for the […]

Journal of a Harvester

by Sarah Hernan Since the 2014 harvest is complete in France and Italy, you may have read reports from the different producers giving their first impressions about the new vintage. Yet we rarely consider what harvest is like from a grape picker’s point of view. Harvest 2014 at Domaine du Salvard, Loire As wine tourism […]

Pique-Nique Wines

Everybody loves a picnic, especially now that summer is around the corner. It is time to plan a day at the beach, lake, river, pond, park, or even in your own backyard, where you can decompress in the sun with good friends, food, and maybe a bottle of wine or two. Okay, definitely a bottle […]

Tasting at Terroir with Catherine Breton

Next Tuesday, our friends at Terroir in San Francisco are having a tasting featuring wines from the Loire Valley with special guest, Catherine Breton of Domaine Catherine et Pierre Breton. The event requires an RSVP so please give the guys at Terroir a call at 415.558.9946 if you’d like to attend. Also, check out Eric […]