HeyJaredJ’ai Soif — Insider Wine, Paris & Travel By Girl Meets Glass
A Paris-based wine professor and journalist sharing where to drink, what to order, and how to experience wine like a local — in Paris and beyond.
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How to Order Wine in a Parisian Restaurant or Bar a Vins (opens the original)
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Ordering wine in Paris can feel intimidating for so many reasons!The list might be longThe sommelier is super serious (and slightly impatient)And your French is rusty. If you even had a level of French that could get rusty.But I do have good news for you. Parisian wine culture is much less about the performance of it all as most cavistes and wait staff genuinely want to help you. So, if you know how to read the list, say a few useful phrases, and avoid the most common traps, you can order with c
The Earliest Champagne Harvest Ever! (opens the original)
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When I first started studying wine some time ago, we always read that harvest started late September, October. Fast forward to modern days and those dates are getting earlier and earlier. This year in Champagne was the earliest harvest to date, with some starting as early as August 10th. You know this cut into the regularly scheduled French August holidays! The Comité Champagne (CIVC) said it was the earliest opening of the harvest since they started collecting records in the early 1900s. And he
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