SoCultures October 2018
India & France
This culturally rich mecca of exotic wines is enriched with natural tapestry of
greenery, countryside, lakes, and splendid chateaux, pretty pebbled roads to
romantic old-fashioned café cultures. And they seem to whisper hundreds and
thousands years old stories of diversity, contrast, flavours and textures.
Let’s push open the doors of some exquisite wine château in France. They are
gorgeous from Bordeaux Jura, Bourgogne, and Alsace to Languedoc. Here one can
enjoy simple pleasures of life in most eccentric styles. Taste a Sauternes wine
while perched in a 200-year-old cedar tree, now that’s the beauty of life.
The winegrowers open up their vineyards eclectic art-student haunts to the
exquisite gourmet eateries for wine tastings, wine courses and numerous cultural
and gourmet discoveries, and also offer workshops etc.
Château Pape Clément
This vineyard has some interesting history. One of the oldest vineyards of
Bordeaux, it got its name from Pope Clement V. It was one of the firsts in the
France to plant vines in row. It offers some of the most relished tastes in wine –
Cabernet Sauvignon to Merlot. So, when you look at a French wine label, check
the labels to determine which grapes are in the bottle. A foodie from heart will find
ways to enjoy grape-based products by combining them with local culinary
delicacies.
Address: Château pape Clement, 216 Avenue, Dr Nancel Penard, 33600, Pessac,
France
Château Roubine
Now Roubine is stream in English. And the Château and gardens are influenced by
the Roubine. Chateau Roubine is in Provance…a place known for high spirited
but simple cuisine and home to almost fourteen hundred years old wine estates.
Provance is luminous, welcoming as well as artistic also. Apart from its wine
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