do yuo like les vins français?

[RMJ]

yeah like topic says +?

I think they many are good iI have recently drink them a lot. But it's not easty to get the ones you really wanat. Like now I have vin de corse but it's just corse.... getting one from Ajaccio for exampel it's much harde.r I know when you go to Corse you can buy vins de any regio de ajaccio wiithout problem. But outside Corse it's much harder they just say it's from Corse.

From mainlanfd France it's much easier to pick up vin. You hav selection of dozens of vins. Well dependin g from the store of course but even the on smalll one near by has lots. And from downtown from bigger store you have lots of choise.

[lefty12357]

I'll have to look and see what's available in my area. I'm more of a Reisling man myself, but I have bought French wines in the past. My local store has a large French wine selection, so I'll have to look through it more carefully. I doubt I will have much luck finding a wine from Ajaccio in Minnesota, but it could be fun trying...

[Piblokto]

Originally Posted by lefty12357

I'll have to look and see what's available in my area. I'm more of a Reisling man myself, but I have bought French wines in the past. My local store has a large French wine selection, so I'll have to look through it more carefully. I doubt I will have much luck finding a wine from Ajaccio in Minnesota, but it could be fun trying...

They make very good Riesling in Alsace (east of France - http://www.vinsalsace.com/fr/) which goes well with one of the local dishes : la choucroute (sauerkraut).
And corsican wine, although it gets a little better now than what it used to be, is not really good. But it's fine with a barbecue on a hot summer day, or with the local products (cheese, charcuterie) when you're in Corsica...

[RMJ]

these i bought today:

red and whithe. one from Corse again and the other is just french. Dunno where excatly. Maybe it says if i want to look .

[painbringer]

Originally Posted by RMJ

these i bought today:

red and whithe. one from Corse again and the other is just french. Dunno where excatly. Maybe it says if i want to look .

how much those bottles go for??

[Zack -Alizee Lover-]

That looks like a nice bottle of wine.

[Cooney]

The white is from the Languedoc-Roussillon region in the south of France.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languedoc-Roussillon

[lefty12357]

I completely forgot about Rieslings from Alsace. I guess I’m just in the habit of buying German Rieslings, (spätlese is my favorite level of ripeness). I also noticed that I misspelled Riesling in my previous post. I don’t know where my brain is today.

Anyways, thanks for reminding me, I think I’ll pick up a bottle of Alsace Riesling, I haven’t had one in quite a while.

[Deepwaters]

Of course I love French wine! Unless you don't like wine, how could you not? French wine-growing soil is, if memory serves, chalky, and this gives the wine a distinctive woody taste, quite different from what we grow in California, which is more fruity, even when very dry. The best French wine (not counting Corsican wine which I'm not familiar with) comes from Bordeaux, Bourgogne and Champagne.

One of my two quirky psychic talents is that I can hold a bottle of wine and sense the quality and get an impression of how it will taste. This lets me find some great bargains sometimes. Combine this with times when French imported wine is running cheap, as it occasionally does, and I get very happy.

(RMJ, why did you put this thread in the Alizée section? I love her, too, and she's French, but she's not wine.)

Edit: The white you have there is classified as "table wine" under the EU naming system. It's not labeled as especially high quality. Although sometimes you find good stuff with a misleading label.

[espire]

I generally buy Spanish wine, though I'm not near being any sort of expert on the subject.

Guess I'll try some French wine one day...